[fdsary]

I'm a foreigner living in Germany, and can tell you this is true. 'Everyone' uses Firefox.

They also really like these 2-click-social-media-buttons, because it apparently gives better privacy (load the tracking/tweeting/liking script upon the click of a button, and when clicking again run the like/tweet function) http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Fuer-mehr-Datenschutz....

Which seems like security theatre to me. Why not just load the script on the first click, and then run the tweet function immediately after?

[untog]

Why not just load the script on the first click, and then run the tweet function immediately after?

Because the tweet function invokes a pop-up window, which browsers won't allow unless attached to a click function.

[detaro]

As a German, not everybody uses Firefox. Chrome is quite popular as well, many people just don't change these things very often and got Firefox before Chrome was a thing. Took long enough to get them off Internet Explorer ;)

> then run the tweet function immediately after?

The site should not be able to do so, because if that worked shady sites simply would trigger "like" or "tweet" for visitors to generate spam. Loading the original widget is the only way that is accepted by the social networks.