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> their main market is tech savvy people that tend to be more sensitive to this than most Is that so, though? Firefox is still being used by millions of users,
by Vinnl 8y ago
> their main market is tech savvy people that tend to be more sensitive to this than most
Is that so, though? Firefox is still being used by millions of users, and I doubt those are only the tech savvy internet users.
(Then again, this mostly applies to Firefox users using add-ons, which probably has a higher share of technical users.)
- yawaramin 8y agoOne of their biggest 'selling points' is that they protect your privacy. It's really, really off brand for them to be distributing a critical bugfix through a telemetry collection channel.
- DoctorOetker 8y agoit does feel like the normalization of deviance it's also entirely predictable that a non-negligable fraction of users -after enabling studies and verifying everything works again- will ... simply go on with their lives and forget about disabling studies... I also don't understand why the certificate graph is not exposed through a user interface, so that the user can add and remove certificates, or enable and disable certificates at their own discretion. This should have been obvious when the certified add-ons were introduced. Then all they would have to do is host the certificate file on their own domain and everyone could follow the simple steps in the GUI to replace the expired certificate...
- overgard 8y agoI might be wrong, I don't have data, but, as far as I can tell most users either use the installed browser or chrome (or whatever their tech savvy friends/relatives install for them).