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Is there any public data about browser usage on MacOS?

I rarely see people using Chrome on a Mac.

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Surprisingly hard to find this info. This says it’s 66% for Chrome on macOS:

https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?opt...

I’ve had the opposite experience; I’ve literally never seen anyone using Safari on a Mac. Even tech illiterate people always seem to end up with Chrome somehow.

Aren‘t tech illiterate people the ones using chrome?

They're the ones using Apple products generally so there's certainly overlap with both chrome and safari

It depends? If you're a more advanced user, need extensions, and a more complete browser overall, you have to use Chrome(ium) and Firefox.

Lol, no. An important reason for me to not use Safari is that it doesn't support uBlock Origin, 'tech illiterate people' rarely care about ad-blocking.

I used Firefox before safari because of uBlock Origin, but performance and battery life were big problems. There are ad blockers in Safari gives me the same end result as uBlock Origin.

> Even tech illiterate people always seem to end up with Chrome somehow.

Ha ha, because they are unable to quit the app.

Anecdotally, GSuite works a lot better on Chrome than any other browsers I've tried. Unsurprisingly companies opting for GSuite will see a larger share of chrome use, it might as well be preinstalled when handing down the computer or mandated at IT level when the intranet and other corporate SaaS is explicitely tested for chrome first.

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