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They realized it was a risk so they built their own browser to have more control. And it worked. Only now, users are wising up and moving to Firefox.

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No meaningful fraction of users is moving to Firefox [1] [2]. I wish this was the case, but it sure is not.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#...

[2] https://netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx

If Firefox is blocking trackers by default, how will you know if more are using it now?

Is firefox less fingerprintable?

Firefox has been putting a lot of attention to this area. https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/how-to-block-fingerprinting...

I'm not an expert, but I'm running Firefox Nightly for exactly that reason.

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/04/09/protectio...

It looks like the related feature is now in the regular release.

What's your user agent like? I would imagine there are not many Nightly users out there.

Still there are a lot of information in your user-agent and metadata (OS version, platform, screen size, timezone, and more).

firefox's charter allows for taking action against the interest of google. Chrome doesn't.

Seems to be, according to the creators of nothingprivate.ml: [1]

[1]: https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/nothing-private/blob/maste...

Not at all. In many ways since firefox has such a smaller market share you are significantly easier to identify than average.

This makes little sense. If the data collection capabilities are more restricted, how would one be easier to identify? Firefox has a significant market share still.

The absence of a data point is still an identifiable data point

Want to advertise a product aimed at digital privacy concerned people? Just push it at those you can not fingerprint..

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