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> To put this in perspective, I can see 12k people use uBlock origin and the next most popular addon is NoScript with 3k. This really doesn't affect a lot of pe
by iggldiggl 6y ago
> To put this in perspective, I can see 12k people use uBlock origin and the next most popular addon is NoScript with 3k. This really doesn't affect a lot of people.
Where are you getting these numbers from? Unfortunately it seems that addons.mozilla.org statistics have become private for all add-ons (it used to be the case that add-on authors could decide on making them public or keeping them private), so I can only look at my own current numbers, but something's definitively off there:
Whereas general usage data goes back slightly more than one year, for me the Android data currently only starts in June (!) and with ridiculously low numbers at that (just a handful of users). Since August they have started to pick up a little, but they're still a far cry from what I remember – https://addons.mozilla.org/android/addon/video-background-play-fix/ https://addons.mozilla.org/android/addon/video-background-pl... shows almost 1k Android users at the moment, which is less than the amount of Windows users being reported, even though installing the addon on desktop doesn't even make all that much sense due to desktop Youtube not blocking background playback anyway.
Unfortunately I hadn't looked at that statistics for quite a while so my memory is a bit hazy, but according to the Wayback machine, a year ago that add-on had around 35,000 users, with a very clear majority (that I still remember for sure) of them having been on Android.
Likewise, my memories of uBlock origin's statistics are somewhat fuzzy, but I think it had something on the order of a few 100,000 (maybe 300,000 to 400,000 users?) on Android.
Adblock Plus had a similar amount, which I remember within the context of them having considerably more users on Desktop than uBlock Origin, but a relatively similar amount on Android.