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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Absolutely. If you think you can switch when chrome will be completely hostile it will be too late.

The reason they are trying those things in chrome is because the market share of Firefox is currently low. They are counting that you won't have the option to run Firefox anymore, because sites will stop supporting it. Don't let that happen.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Also, Firefox is in a tough situation where they have to purposefully shoot themselves in the foot, because their builtin tracking protection means Firefox usually doesn't show up in a lot of browser usage stats.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I didn't think about it, though if that makes it harder to track it (can't they just check the user agent?) could that actually be good, as the sites will never know exactly how many users they will lose, so might be more hesitant to pull the trigger?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

No, they'll just see the management summary that Firefox occupies less than 0.5% of their users' marketshare and prioritize their budget accordingly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

That would be true for competent web developers. Unfortunately, those are a vanishingly small subset.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That blocks user agent string? Answer: no it absolutely doesn't

Explain how this comment isn't completely wrong

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you use a third-party analytics service such as Google Analytics, as almost all serious parties do (with their nice dashboards and reports), then you'll notice Firefox is severely underrepresented because the request never reaches Google

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think that may be true if you set the privacy protection to strict, which is not default.

I wonder if it's underrepresented more so because people who use Firefox are more likely to install privacy centric extensions

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

Too late. Lumen5 crashes on Firefox. Google Cloud Console barely loads. I was a Firefox user for YEARS but finally had to uninstall this week. The amount of "Firefox is not supported" warnings and weird issues I was running into every day was getting a tad ridiculous.