> “People don’t use Firefox because of add-ons. Our telemetry shows 80% of users never install any add-ons” > i.e. the telemetry that any tech savvy person imm

> “People don’t use Firefox because of add-ons. Our telemetry shows 80% of users never install any add-ons” > i.e. the telemetry that any tech savvy person immediately turns off > because they don’t want their browser spying on them and about which we have also complained numerous times. There are other means to get usage-numbers of addons, like server-side stats. And those numbers support this claim. Even the most popular addons have just some millions of users at best. Adblocker barely make some ten million, meaning they are used by just 10-20% of the users. And those number did not change much in the last 10 years. Though, there were IMHO already heavy loses before IMHO. Firefox 3 & 4 (released 2008 & 2011) were heavy damage for addon-communiy, killing many beloved tools. The question is whether usage-numbers before this were significant higher.