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by coldtea 2140 days ago
>No it really wasn't. Nobody except tech geeks care about Servo. What Mozilla needs to do is to provide a privacy aware browser that doesn't inform Google

Nobody except geeks and politically minded people care about privacy that much (if they didn't they'd already use Firefox with DDG, or Brave or at least Safari).

People do care for faster, more conventient browser -- that's why we switched from Netscape to IE (when Mozilla bloated and a for a little while IE6 was faster/better), then to Firefox, and then to Chrome.

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Lots of people care about privacy if the intrusions are bad enough to notice. People really don’t like it if they search for and buy a bicycle and keep getting ads for bicycles for weeks.
>Lots of people care about privacy if the intrusions are bad enough to notice.

Well, lots but still insignifcant to make a browser market share raise. Which is not "lots" in the sense that matters. Most People value speed, convenience, features, and security over privacy.

>People really don’t like it if they search for and buy a bicycle and keep getting ads for bicycles for weeks.

Most (as in over 80% of the people) don't even use an ad blocker and could not care less. Even if they are annoyed but keeping getting those ads, they don't care enough to do anything about it, much less switch broswers.