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Re:Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons? (2020) by RedShift1 on Saturday February 11, 2023 @12:13AM (#34749801)
> metrics have shown over and over again that people didn't use XUL addons (even if you add the people disabling telemetry)

How do you know?

Re:Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons? (2020) by nerdile on Saturday February 11, 2023 @12:40AM (#34749898)
Because people who don't send telemetry to the app maker still leave traces of their activity through other online interactions that allow a general estimation of the population size, which can then be applied against the size measured through telemetry to produce projected estimates of the feature utilization within the general population including upper and lower bounds by using math and statistics. Keep up