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> of which only 7 were using Firefox

Were reporting using Firefox.

Also, not surprising, Firefox security leaves a lot to be desired.

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>Also, not surprising, Firefox security leaves a lot to be desired.

Huh? Blocking google analytics tracking is a positive, not a negative regarding security.

He's talking about user agent spoofing.

I'm not so sure. It shouldn't matter whatsoever what user agent I'm using. In fact, not sending the user agent field would be massively better if only that in and of itself wasn't a unique datapoint.

Still not sure how that ties into Firefox having worse security. User agent spoofing is a privacy item and a positive privacy item.

If Firefox users are disproportionately lying about the user agent for privacy then counts are off. This would impact 1p telemetry as well. If Firefox users are disproportionately running Adblock then they'll be undercounted (it's also entirely possible that Chrome & GA have some kind of thing where even if you're using Adblock they're able to correct the GA data they show you for Chrome users).

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