Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
by Ygg2 on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:39PM
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I fear this is too little, too late. Also Google is defacto a browser monopoly too.
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Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
by AnimalMuppet on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:48PM
(#23458217)
Defacto browser monopoly? What is Chrome's market/usage share?
Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
by staplers on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:55PM
(#23458292)
Tracker/analytics data won't be correct for Firefox or people using privacy-centric browsers as they inherently block that. I think it'd be hard to get a real number without polling a lot of people.
A lot of people assume Chrome has the monopoly based on looking at false analytics.
Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
by lucasmullens on Monday June 08, 2020 @01:23PM
(#23458555)
Firefox definitely sends its user-agent to servers, so wouldn't server-side analytics still work?
Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
by DreadY2K on Monday June 08, 2020 @02:48PM
(#23459477)
Theoretically, server-side analytics could use the user-agent strings and other headers in the request to have infallible analytics. In practice, a lot of server-side analytics in practice rely on third-party tracking scripts (like Google Analytics) and other such practices that get blocked by tools like Privacy Badger, etc.
Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
by staplers on Monday June 08, 2020 @02:43PM
(#23459418)
Perhaps, and this is likely the case with most users. But there still exists many users with extensions disabling fingerprinting and such.
Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
by aembleton on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:11PM
(#23467873)
I wish Cloudflare would publish stats based on user agents. They must have a good idea about the real numbers
Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
by jgrahamc on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:14PM
(#23467897)
What do you want to know?
Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
by aembleton on Thursday June 11, 2020 @11:44AM
(#23490026)
What percentage of traffic comes from Firefox.
Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
by amsully on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:52PM
(#23458262)
It looks to be between 60-70% depending on what data is used.
Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
by 1MachineElf on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:43PM
(#23458172)
Thankfully the new Microsoft Edge will save us. /s