[FabCH]

It’s absolutely true. It is a documented fact. It was discovered and entered into public record during the DOJ antitrust investigation into Google Chrome.

They call the signal „popularity“ and it is a successor of the Google Toolbar signal.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-wins-signi...

[fuglede_]

So why is this not the largest GDPR case in all of history?

[NuclearPM]

> „popularity“

Why are you using weird quotes?

[evilduck]

I'll take a wild guess and assume they are of a German or Polish language background. Wait 'til you encounter a French person who accidentally uses guillemets if you want one even «weirder».

[robin_reala]

Or the Nordics ”like this” or the UK ‘like this’ or Japan 「like this」. Basically every country has their own standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table

[keane]

This is why the <q> element exists which enables locale-aware quotation marks: https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/qa-the-q-element...

  :root:lang(en) { quotes: '“' '”' '‘' '’' }
  :root:lang(fr) { quotes: '«' '»' '«' '»' }
  :root:lang(fr-CA) { quotes: '«' '»' '‹' '›' }
  q:before { content: open-quote; }
  q:after { content: close-quote; }

There's currently 26 quotation mark varieties by default (in Firefox): https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/source/intl/locale/cldr-q... which are sourced from the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository: https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/tree/main/common/main

[FabCH]

Correct. Swiss German keyboard.

[NuclearPM]

Thanks!

[bigbossg72]

No