From the data at https://analytics.usa.gov/data/live/browsers.json , Microsoft Edge has more than 2x the users of Firefox (322,890,632 vs 143,040,483).
Also shows a shocking 90,832 users viewing who are users of 'BestBuy'.
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Back in the day usage of the internet grossly over-represented one country with a concept of free speech that, by global standards, is extremist.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying
As a DARPA project, the early internet was populated almost exclusively by Americans for quite a long time. It grew rapidly, but I suspect that you're thinking about the culture that was steeped in almost everybody you talked to being an American.
Americans have a philosophy of the freedom of speech grounded in the principles of the First Amendment. Those principles are not universally shared, and indeed, even amongst the liberal nations the American take on the topic is pretty liberal (contrast the way, say, speech overtly supporting fascism is treated in Germany vs. the relatively new and controversial hate speech laws in the US, or the principles of affirmative defense for defamation in the US not shared by the UK, or the Refused Classification category for videogames in Australia, or the fact that the law of against "publication or utterance of blasphemous matter" was repealed in Ireland in 2020).
As the average internet user grows to resemble more the average human than the average American human, regression to the international mean on freedom of information is to be anticipated.
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#103Firefox's usage percentage is upsetting. I hope they don't die, but this looks really bad for them.
I don't understand why large companies ban Gmail but allow Chrome. They should be using Firefox instead.
Things are only getting worse in this regard as more and more devs don't even test on FF, and FF lags behind new features. Internal business apps are going to be Chrome only and it's only downhill from there.
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#104This does not seem to work correctly. I visited from separate browsers and the number remains the same.
It updates every 5 minutes.
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#107Chromebooks have high (unit) sales (some say) but I've yet to see any signs that they are used a lot. Here only 1.4% of visits are from ChromeOS.
My anecdote: A lot of people seem to be using Chromebooks to replace tablets (because good, non-Amazon tablets that aren't expensive are rare these days). You can pick up a $250 touchscreen Chromebook that works as a vastly superior web-browsing and video-watching device than a $250 Samsung tablet.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand why large companies ban Gmail but allow Chrome. They should be using Firefox instead.
They aren't banning due to a dislike of Google. They are trying to stop unmonitored exfiltration of data.
> They are trying to stop unmonitored exfiltration of data.
This was always a pipe dream (preventing data exfiltration). The best any company do is to prevent accidental exfiltration of data. Like when someone attaches a spreadsheet with social security/credit card numbers to an email going out over the Internet. There's tools to detect that sort of thing (and stop it) but they don't work when the data is encrypted.
There currently exists no technology that can stop the human problem of data exfiltration. Here's a quick quiz to see if anyone in your company can exfiltrate whatever TF they want: Can employees play sounds on their desktop (as in, it emits sound)? Then they can exfiltrate any file they have read access to pretty damned quickly. Even huge, multi-gigabyte files!
Current data exfiltration methods can take advantage of a tiny corner of a monitor, the sound output (direct connect to line out or optical is ideal!), power lines (yes, this works! https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2018/04/13/data-exfiltration...), various USB tricks (even if entire categories of "storage" devices are blocked via software), and many, many more. Most of them are basically undetectable as well and can be executed with JavaScript in any browser that gives the user access to the developer console.
Obviously, if end users have access to PowerShell or Python that's even faster/better at exfiltrating the data.
My favorite one though has got to be the sound output... You can write a simple script that converts bits into inaudible sounds that can be picked up by a cell phone in your pocket! It's not nearly as fast as a direct connection to the line out jack but it is so cool! haha
Second place has to be data exfiltration, "by blinking the numlock LED"
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#109From the data at https://analytics.usa.gov/data/live/browsers.json , Microsoft Edge has more than 2x the users of Firefox (322,890,632 vs 143,040,483).
`totals.browser` contains user agents (or something similar). Why are there (personal?) email addresses in there as well? Who sets that as their user agent?
I think for respectful web scraping it is common/preferred etiquette to include some contact info.
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#110This site went live in 2015 and hasn't changed too much since then. Participating agencies have their google analytics data collected by GSA, which is hosting this webpage. It's very useful, and I've referred to this site many times over the years (probably bc a couple sites I've worked on are in the top 50!). For those people wanting other awesome and informative govt sites, take a look at https://www.usaspending.go…
I bet the US government has lots of useful websites that I've never even heard of. But every now and again I randomly stumble across one (like the one from your comment), and it makes me wonder if there is a "discovery problem" here. What other useful govt sites are out there, but are unknown to me.
Here's one I stumbled upon recently: the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has an interactive sea level rise map where you can see whether a given location in the US will suffer flooding/inundation from sea level rise based on the value the user selects: https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#