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Re:Firefox on the Brink? by Semaphor on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @12:00PM (#38533523)
I mentioned that:

> this is Germany, generally far higher FF usage

But the interesting part is not how much FF has here, but how much GA undercounts it.

Re:Firefox on the Brink? by culi on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @12:05PM (#38533631)
Yeah it's interesting. I wonder if it's done on purpose or if it has to do with the way bots/crawlers are counted
Re:Firefox on the Brink? by Semaphor on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @12:24PM (#38533910)
See parent. The default in FF is to shim the GA script
Re:Firefox on the Brink? by hnbad on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @03:42PM (#38536650)
Also GA requires opt-in in the EU (even if some sites try to be clever and illegally make it harder to refuse than to accept) whereas presumably their first-party tracking is done in such a way consent is not necessary (e.g. sufficient anonymization that a data point can not be correlated with the user it originated from). Presumably FF users are more likely not to consent by default to begin with.