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by coldtea 737 days ago
If we exclude over 75 with no interest in using it (and no use case for it in their environmnent/culture), and under 10, we're pretty close to covering all the rest.

And even the 60% is some hand wavy estimate about internet reach, about people using the internet frequently. More people use the internet than that, some transparently through some smartphone app or basic feature phone, which almost everybody has even in the poorest places in Africa.

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Lol at under 10 and over 75 having no interest. I know avid users … content creators… in both categories.
Lol at you missing the qualifier "and no use case for it in their environmnent/culture".

Everybody knows avid users at 75+ or 10-, you haven't discovered something knew. But there are whole countries/areas/cultures where e.g. the majority of 75+ have no internet use, and no interest in getting any. You know, in the world, not in the US.

I think "nearly every human" is a bit more hand wavy than the 60% statistic.