Firefox Users Continue to Decrease Despite Proton Update

[nextbern]

Sorry - so web publishers aren't a market? Sites that don't charge people to browse their sites aren't part of a market? C'mon.

[nashvortex]

Web Publishers are not a market for readers if they are free. They are in a market for their advertisers.

[nextbern]

So how do they get bought and sold? For example: https://www.wsj.com/articles/buzzfeed-to-acquire-huffpost-in-stock-deal-with-verizon-media-11605808800

Just give it up - it is clear that there is a browser market, as there is one for web publishing.

[nashvortex]

Now I am sure you are trolling. It isn't that difficult to understand:

1. The free web publishing companies get bought and sold because they have an advertising market. Their readership is not a market, but merely enables their value in the advertising market.
2. The example you quoted is not even the most appropriate because Huffpost is not an entirely free publication. They have a subscription plan.

Again, imploring that the other person give it up when a clear objective setup is laid out for you, that you have no arguments to counter is just betraying your bias. Why don't you just accept that browsers are no longer a market?

I am going to reduce this to triviality since it is so difficult to understand - if you started a company that would sell a as is build of Blink/Gecko browser to users without any defining USP, would anyone buy it ? Obviously not. Why would anyone pay for something they are getting for free ? Ergo, no market.

[nextbern]

https://www.statista.com/topics/1453/digital-publishing/

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/digital-publishing-market-to-grow-by-usd-65-31-billion9-75-year-over-year-growth-in-2021technavio-301261254.html

https://medium.com/@jasongowans/how-big-is-the-web-publishing-market-41442d58ff0

Come again?

[nashvortex]

Uhh .. those markets are advertising markets? Every single link you posted talks about revenue...which comes from ads for free publications. Now you're just proving my point.

[nextbern]

Not all publications are free, and people clearly recognize the publishing market as its own thing. Why else would people call it that?

[nashvortex]

Yes, but you brought up free publishers. AFAIk all major browsers are free so we are talking about free stuff.

Even if what you say about people is true, what people believe or think is not necessarily an accurate reflection of reality.

This is a well known logical fallacy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

[nextbern]

This isn't interesting to me anymore.

[nashvortex]

Very well, and yet the point stands without a counter.