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No offense but you could only come to this conclusion if you've looked at literally zero data and are just shooting from your hip based on sporadic HN conversat
by dralley 3y ago
No offense but you could only come to this conclusion if you've looked at literally zero data and are just shooting from your hip based on sporadic HN conversations.
Their market share was dropping for a long time before, and it was dropping for a long time after. And to the extent that switching addon models helped them improve performance during their big marketing push in 2017, it probably got them a few users back if anything.
A full half of Firefox users (even at the time) didn't use addons, and the majority of the rest only used one or two adblockers.
- AniseAbyss 3y agoMost people don't even use ad blockers.
- aleph4 3y agoSeriously, there's an amazing amount of shooting from the hip happening here.
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoI'd be extremely careful about using Firefox's analytics data. I can't find Firefox's telemetry coverage numbers (they gather the info, so it's probably out there somewhere), but it's not at all unreasonable to suspect that a lot of the "power user"-type interactions are correlated with an unwillingness to enable telemetry. Couple that with the fact that Firefox, as a relatively niche browser these days, has a selection bias for more techy-savvy users, and you have a recipe for extremely misleading statistics.