It's rare that see FF usage above 1% on any of my customers' sites and I think it's only at something like 2% on gov.uk
Of course there's a debate to be had over how much FF users blocking analytics affects the numbers but the numbers tie up with the log mining I've done too
It's abused almost exclusively by ad networks, including Google's DoubleClick on major sites like StackOverflow.
These new APIs are used almost entirely for fingerprinting, and this was implemented after the Chrome team claimed they would carefully consider the security ramifications of new APIs. I guess it doesn't matter if the business unit next door prints money as a result.
Do you have any more info about this?
These APIs leak sensitive information about your peripherals without your consent or notification [2], and is used rampantly on Google's ad network.
Try it yourself and see. Simply open up the browser console and type: (new AudioContext())
Google Chrome developers have claimed that they consider privacy and security while implementing APIs, while they actively tear down privacy and destroy security (which benefits Google's ad unit). The separation between Google Chrome's security team and DoubleClick, is, in my opinion, non-existent. As another example, DoubleClick has a hard-coded backdoor in Chrome that sends a unique browser install ID as telemetry via headers to DoubleClick domains in all requests. [3]
[1] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/332229/stack-overfl...
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AudioContex...
[3] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/e51dcb0c148...
Chrome not being available on iOS is good from an anti-monoculture perspective but not so good from a browser feature perspective