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[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right but why is that relevant? What good or bad does a number going down do? If Firefox wanted to keep track they could just count the number of downloads right?

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The issue is that sites will have even less reason to support Firefox if the number of people using Firefox goes down.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Ah OK that makes sense. Thank you.