well I can't speak for France but privacy does play a big role in Germany given that we have ample fairly recent history with surveillance regimes, just watch D

well I can't speak for France but privacy does play a big role in Germany given that we have ample fairly recent history with surveillance regimes, just watch Das Leben der Anderen it's a great film and it's I think culturally a very German movie on this kind of topic. We were also one of the last places were Firefox still held a majority of users for a surprisingly long time. I think it's still at about ~20%.