DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens

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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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

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Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens by jgrahamc on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:14PM (#23467897)

What do you want to know?

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Re:DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens by aembleton on Thursday June 11, 2020 @11:44AM (#23490026)

What percentage of traffic comes from Firefox.

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