You all know about Mozilla's latest actions. Selling user data, giving Mozilla a license for all content that goes through Firefox, forcing the introduction of AI, etc.
I became curious about how this affected Firefox usage statistics. I turned to the official statistics site. This site is updated weekly, but after February 17, the official Firefox statistics "forgot" to update. Then I turned to w3counter.
On the trends page, Firefox has a decline at the end.
Here, I enlarged the necessary fragment.
I went to the global statistics page.
In January, Firefox has 4%.
In February, Firefox has 3.2% (0.8% loss)
Chrome gained +2% over the last month, while Firefox fell.
Before that, Firefox grew from 3% to 4% in six months against the background of news about the ban on ad blockers by Chrome. The graph also clearly shows the decline in Safari's percentage at a time when Firefox was growing.
Summary: Somewhere in mid-2024, some events occurred that increased the popularity of Firefox. This is probably the ban on ad blockers by Chrome and some other actions by Apple that led to losses in Safari.
The growth in Firefox's percentage, in my opinion, inspired Mozilla's management. And Mozilla decided that they could sell Firefox user data, because Firefox users would have no choice.
Due to the actions of Mozilla's management, Firefox lost in TWO WEEKS everything it had gained in HALF A YEAR.
We are waiting to see how Mozilla's management's further actions will affect the fate of Firefox.
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