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I wish there was a serious conversation on how a browser can be productivized and make actual profits. I think that model has the best chances of working out over the long-term in guarding user's privacy - at least for those users willing to pay for it.

Most (all?) companies which developed a browser have lax policies on data privacy. At most those are inline with major directives like GDPR. However, it's not in their best interest to protect / not leverage user data. So the real discussion should've been about the set of features that would attract a sufficiently large user base who would pay ~10$ per month subscription in order to make the model sustainable on the long-term.

Last time I tried building a software around stocks, the major pain I had was the lack of affordable APIs that would give quotes in almost real time.

Almost all APIs I checked had a significant pricing. I'm wondering where does this website takes the data from and what's the price for it.

I'm not sure if there's a bias in the results. But it seems that there shouldn't be any bias towards a particular programming language since they have an algorithm for computing the scores based on search queries on popular search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo! etc.

Go moving from 54th to 13th most popular is pretty astonishing. I second that and although I've done a number of side projects using golang, if I want to make a presentation of the language , I wouldn't quite know for sure what are the best selling points.

I know it puts a great emphasis on concurrency and their model is rock solid and easy to reason about, but still, given that most of our work is web related and 95% of the time we have to manipulate various resources that persist to some database, I don't have a clear reason on why to choose go over php for example.