> I mean it used to be that most people didn't know the difference between IE and the internet, and some time in the last ten years I guess it changed to Chrome

> I mean it used to be that most people didn't know the difference between IE and the internet, and some time in the last ten years I guess it changed to Chrome instead of IE. Right and there was a reason for that. IE's monopoly didn't fall from the sky. Netscape was flying high and they decided to rewrite the whole browser while IE kept adding features. The end result was that yes, Firefox was born, but its market share collapsed. Now you have a lot of browsers deciding that the most important thing they can do is remove features and break websites. Maybe those features aren't very good from a privacy point of view, but when the other guy's browser works and yours doesn't, that's not a recipe for gaining market share. Chrome is the other guy, and unlike Safari which is disabling cookies right and left and refusing to load resources, Chrome is willing to do it and sites work with Chrome. So in that dynamic, there is little reason to think that Chrome is going to lose market share to browsers whose main raison d'etre is that they will refuse to load/send resources. If it wasn't for iOS banning non-safari engines, Chrome's market share would be much higher, which is pretty sad given that it's become so bloated. But users care more about stuff working.