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Re:Firefox Browser: best for a free web by starik36 on Monday September 13, 2021 @08:59PM (#28518896)
> FF browser share has continued to decline steadily

Is that really a fact though? I read somewhere that >80% FF users have Ad Blocker installed. Wouldn't that keep it hidden to Google Analytics and similar outfits that come up with browser usage stats?

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Re:Firefox Browser: best for a free web by nerdponx on Monday September 13, 2021 @09:20PM (#28519044)
HTTP servers can still see the clients' user agent strings.
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Re:Firefox Browser: best for a free web by gilrain on Monday September 13, 2021 @10:45PM (#28519596)
Yes.

Do you trust Mozilla? They share the numbers.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

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Re:Firefox Browser: best for a free web by sorry_outta_gas on Monday September 13, 2021 @09:11PM (#28518977)
whatsmybrowser.org returns firefox for me with some privacy plugins and ublock origin installed
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Re:Firefox Browser: best for a free web by kennywinker on Monday September 13, 2021 @09:24PM (#28519078)
it even knows the exact version of firefox I'm running (92.0)
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Re:Firefox Browser: best for a free web by executesorder66 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:26AM (#28521832)
It's actually about 30% that have any kind of addon :

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/usage-behavior

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