[renewiltord]

> The remaining 33.8% of Android devices will eventually start getting certificate errors when users visit sites that have a Let’s Encrypt certificate. In our communications with large integrators, we have found that this represents around 1-5% of traffic to their sites.

This one-third of Android devices only yields 5% of traffic? Interesting.

[degenerate]

I have a 2010 Android smartphone and it's painfully slow to navigate the modern web, almost unbearable. Browsing news websites is simply not worth my time of waiting for the phone to download and process 22MB of JS, CSS, and graphics. Being on wifi makes no difference; it's the CPU choking to render all that cruft.

So yeah, 5% of traffic makes sense.

[GoblinSlayer]

In firefox (at least in desktop version) you can disable javascript and css. Not sure if they are still downloaded.

[bzbarsky]

For scripts: if script is disabled for a document, scripts are not downloaded. See https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/a5d9abfda1e26b1207... as of today

For stylesheets, I'm not certain how you're disabling them. Depending on how you do it, they may or may not get downloaded. The most common ways of disabling them result in them not being downloaded.

[GoblinSlayer]

View - Page style - No style

[bzbarsky]

That one does not prevent downloading; just prevents application.

[notatoad]

there's a lot of old android phones out there that don't get used for anything other than making phone calls or sending texts.

[halukakin]

This also depends on the country. For instance in Poland android has 99% market share. So 1/3 Poland residents will experience issues.

[t3rabytes]

That’s a pretty bad assumption. Just because 99% of Polish folks use Android doesn’t mean that 33% of those phones are in the group that doesn’t have the cert. “will” is strong.

[mafuy]

That's right - it could also be even more :)

[Havoc]

Crappy expensive internet means it's not instinct to squeeze a quick browsing session into every free minute

[toast0]

More interesting that % of traffic in this case would be unique users. But it's not surprising to me that people using Androids on older devices are using them to access the internet less; they're generally not as nice to use, but also if they were heavily used, they may have worn out by now.