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I wasn't commenting on Firefox's decision to not enable the API, I was commenting on how the author appears to consider Firefox to not be very significant.

Well they aren't wrong.

Firefox has a 3.5% market share, plummeting down from 8% five years ago. "Not very significant" is an understatement.

What is wrong with the rest of Hacker News users they they keep in using the google browser?

Though according to caniuse, beacons is fully implemented which has much the same effect from a tracking PoV.

As a side note, I was somehow completely unaware of that feature (and I don't think in a "heard about it and forgot" sort of way). Every day is a school day...

On the mdn page for it they say there are other less legitimate techniques like adding an image which will start loading and delay the page unloading. So if they didn't add beacons it would mean other less performant ways would be (ab)used.

Interesting that commenters here assert "most users don't want to be tracked," whereas in fact most users happily choose Chrome over any privacy-focused platforms.