My Internet History in Web Browsers

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Post by willhallonline » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 2:53 PM UTC

My Internet History in Web Browsers
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Re: My Internet History in Web Browsers

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Post by pushpop » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 4:15 PM UTC

How does he know his ratio of browser usage 15 years ago? I couldn’t even provide that figure for last year let alone more than a decade in the past

Re: My Internet History in Web Browsers

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Post by elbrian » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 4:19 PM UTC

pushpop wrote: post #2

How does he know his ratio of browser usage 15 years ago? I couldn’t even provide that figure for last year let alone more than a decade in the past

The article seems like a thinly-veiled advertisement for Brave, in my opinion.

Re: My Internet History in Web Browsers

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Post by k__ » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 4:25 PM UTC

For me it was

Netscape -> Firefox -> Chrome -> Firefox

But I had to use IE in some jobs.

Re: My Internet History in Web Browsers

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Post by numbers » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 4:25 PM UTC

pushpop wrote: post #2

How does he know his ratio of browser usage 15 years ago? I couldn’t even provide that figure for last year let alone more than a decade in the past

looks like they're just estimates and mostly 15 years ago it was either IE or Firefox.

Re: My Internet History in Web Browsers

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Post by pushpop » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 4:26 PM UTC

elbrian wrote: post #3

pushpop wrote: post #2

How does he know his ratio of browser usage 15 years ago? I couldn’t even provide that figure for last year let alone more than a decade in the past

The article seems like a thinly-veiled advertisement for Brave, in my opinion.

Yeah, I got that impression too

Re: My Internet History in Web Browsers

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Post by wildylion » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 4:29 PM UTC

elbrian wrote: post #3

pushpop wrote: post #2

How does he know his ratio of browser usage 15 years ago? I couldn’t even provide that figure for last year let alone more than a decade in the past

The article seems like a thinly-veiled advertisement for Brave, in my opinion.

Which is, to put it bluntly, a blatant cash-grab that tries to redirect whatever ad cash flow it could catch into their own pocket.

Best of all, their website puts Brave's selling point as 'not letting other browsers treat you as a product'. Yeah, fat chance.

update: a quick look later, nothing I could not have done using standard open source tools like HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger and/or uBlock Origin.

Re: My Internet History in Web Browsers

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 4:30 PM UTC

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Re: My Internet History in Web Browsers

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Post by grumpy-cowboy » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 4:34 PM UTC

Mosaic -> Netscape -> Firefox -> Chrome -> Firefox

IE only if it's REALLY required by badly designed products/sites.

Re: My Internet History in Web Browsers

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Post by toastercat » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 4:59 PM UTC

IE -> Firefox -> Opera -> Chrome -> Chromium -> Firefox

Now that Chrome has become the new IE of the web, I sometimes have to switch to a Chromium-based browser for some sites to work. For this, I rely on Ungoogled-Chromium.