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0 pointsdoomrobo4y ago0 comments

Unfortunately that's not a likely explanation. If you do even the simplest possible measurement, which is just recording user agent strings and IPs, you won't end up undercounting Firefox clients

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boomboomsubban4y ago

Either uBlock Origin or Matrix comes with user agent spoofing, it's not like the practice is that rare.

unityByFreedom4y ago

Matrix used to do this but doesn't anymore [1] and uBlock never had that feature. Please don't make stuff up.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/issues/927

boomboomsubban4y ago

I don't think it's fair to call not knowing that a feature was removed from a discontinued app "making stuff up."

I was clearly wrong, though it is easy to change your user agent it's unlikely that many Firefox users have done it.

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unityByFreedom4y ago

Does uBlock Origin turn that on by default? That's the only way I could imagine such stats being wrong by a wide margin.

executesorder664y ago

By mozilla's own metrics only 30% of their users use any addon at all.

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boomboomsubban4y ago

Either uBlock Origin or Matrix comes with user agent spoofing, it's not like the practice is that rare.

unityByFreedom4y ago

Matrix used to do this but doesn't anymore [1] and uBlock never had that feature. Please don't make stuff up.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/issues/927

boomboomsubban4y ago

I don't think it's fair to call not knowing that a feature was removed from a discontinued app "making stuff up."

I was clearly wrong, though it is easy to change your user agent it's unlikely that many Firefox users have done it.

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unityByFreedom4y ago

Does uBlock Origin turn that on by default? That's the only way I could imagine such stats being wrong by a wide margin.

executesorder664y ago

By mozilla's own metrics only 30% of their users use any addon at all.

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