• pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    I’m curious how accurate these stats are nowadays with user agent reduction, because a lot of browsers report their UserAgent as ‘Chrome’ to appear as generic as possible, as one of their many measures to minimise user profiling.

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        7 hours ago

        But they used to use Firefox, then switched to Chrome and then when Firefox caught up with Chrome performance wise why did they keep using Chrome when neither are pre-installed anyways?

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          6 hours ago

          Because chrome is not as bad today as IE was during that time. Normies use what is common and easy to use. Chrome is both of these things. Also, normies do not like to tinker. OOBE is what they want and lean to.

          And, generally people have accepted ads in their lives. Bemuses me but what can I do? If a guest asks me why wouldn’t they have ads on websites at my home, I will gladly explain why it is so. But I wouldn’t explain unprompted why it is important to have UBO and dns sinkhole. Also, recent experience says that they either would not notice or think I have paid for Youtube Premium (my HTPC not even logged in YT). They have no idea.

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    25 days ago

    I love that Microsoft Edge is lower than others supposably shouldn’t Edge and fire fox be in the other category and I don’t know Opera, Baidu? Be named?