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Re:Deprecate FTP support (deprecated) by im3w1l on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @06:10PM (#24782274)
I wager the majority has used ftp, but most of them sporadically and without even realizing they were using ftp.

Like doing some research for a school project, googling, getting a link to a pdf document on some ftp, clicking the link. Or clicking the download link on some website, and the file is downloaded using ftp.

These things used to be very common, but are less common now.

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Re:Deprecate FTP support (deprecated) by UncleMeat on Thursday October 15, 2020 @09:01AM (#24788126)
> Like doing some research for a school project, googling, getting a link to a pdf document on some ftp, clicking the link. Or clicking the download link on some website, and the file is downloaded using ftp.

I think you are overestimating this. I'd include that in my 1/10,000 number.

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