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It's pretty much just that there are a lot of germans.
The population of germany is about 80 million.
All else being equal, there are 16 times more germans online than us finns, for example.
Next to the USs 300 million people, that's still one german about every 5 people. Add to that that germans are definitely online more than americans, and yeah...
A lot of germans.
Ok, but if you consider that there are 80M Germans, there are also 60M French (+African countries), and 50M Spanish (+ LatAm). That would make for a language ratio of ~1:1:1 considering Europe alone. This clearly doesn't seem to be the case, so I'm just curious what the reason behind the strong adoption in German speaking countries could be...
then you would also have to include the Austrians and our Brothers in Cheese ๐