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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That blocks user agent string? Answer: no it absolutely doesn't

Explain how this comment isn't completely wrong

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you use a third-party analytics service such as Google Analytics, as almost all serious parties do (with their nice dashboards and reports), then you'll notice Firefox is severely underrepresented because the request never reaches Google

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think that may be true if you set the privacy protection to strict, which is not default.

I wonder if it's underrepresented more so because people who use Firefox are more likely to install privacy centric extensions