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It seems to me that the web has split into two. Developers that care are using browsers like Firefox and avoiding websites full of cruft (e.g. GDPR/Cookie/News
by esotericn 8y ago
It seems to me that the web has split into two.
Developers that care are using browsers like Firefox and avoiding websites full of cruft (e.g. GDPR/Cookie/Newsletter/Advert/... popups).
The general public is using whatever's preinstalled on their phone to go to whatever websites are advertised to them.
There's some overlap (e.g. obviously these websites exist because there are developers that have no principles and design the GDPR banner stuff), of course.
I don't know how we break that. I'm not sure if we even should - I can tell my friends and family that they should boycott anti-user practices, but they don't care, and that's as far as it goes.
For the general public, computers are toasters. Whatever's marketed most will win. Google has a bigger budget (and greater control over services people use on the web in general) than Mozilla.