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Wow great to see uBlock Origin as the top addon installed:

    1 uBlock Origin 4.189%
    2 Adblock Plus - free ad blocker 2.462%
    3 Video DownloadHelper 2.397%
    4 Cisco Webex Extension 2.375%
    5 Facebook Container 1.735%
    6 DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials 1.434%
    7 AdBlocker Ultimate 1.415%
    8 Adblock Plus - kostenloser Adblocker 1.230%
    9 Grammarly for Firefox 1.160%
    10 Adblock Plus - bloqueur de publicités gratuit

Video Download Helper looks good, but I prefer `youtube-dl`[0] as there's more control.

[0] https://www.youtube-dl.org/

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Only 4.189%?! I find that amazing. I would have imagined a MUCH bigger number.

Firefox built-in Tracking Protection out of the box works well enough I can imagine a lot of other users feel their needs are met without additional add-ons.

I know I don't have any additional add-ons installed, but I'm already getting nagged so much by websites to "disable your adblocking", with many confused to thinking I have something like uBlock Origin installed and only a few so far realizing it is just Firefox. (Those that do sometimes requesting I reopen the page in Chrome seems to prove the point that Firefox is doing some things right and Chrome not at all.)

The numbers were roughly always in that size. Estimating usages through download-numbers was possible for a longer time now if you knew the number of users.

How much do you trust add-on developers? For the past 5 years I'm only using add-ons during recreational browsing. The market for personal information is just too aggressive to assume you're safe. I imagine this is part of the reason. Another reason could be that "power users" opt out of analytics right away, leading not only to skewed statistics but also awful UI decisions by Firefox, as they have to make their decisions based on the data they collect.

> Another reason could be that "power users" opt out of analytics right away,

Yeah I imagine a good chunk turn off Mozilla telemetry and data collection 'features', meaning the percentage of users using uBlock Origin is likely much higher.

Would that also remove server-side logging?

Do they include people who opt out of Mozilla's user tracking? Because ubo users seem more likely to do just that.

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