• dangrousperson@feddit.org
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    11 hours ago

    The stats are from StatCounter which has this in their FAQ:

    What methodology is used to calculate Statcounter Global Stats? Statcounter is a web analytics service. Our tracking code is installed on more than 1.5 million sites globally. These sites cover various activities and geographic locations. Every month, we record billions of page views to these sites. For each page view, we analyse the browser/operating system/screen resolution used and we establish if the page view is from a mobile device.

    So it’s the percentage if web traffic (to sites that use this analytics service)

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      10 hours ago

      Ah so that should be pretty accurate then, because the amount of users spoofing their OS is likely fairly low, and I would assume would mostly be Linux users as well, meaning it wouldn’t sell the data as being higher than it is, but rather possibly lower.

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        5 hours ago

        Also someone who uses Linux is more likely to use adblock and telemetry blocking features. The actual count is definitely slightly higher.

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          5 hours ago

          Does telemetry block that? If you go to a site like this, does it get your OS correct? I figured you’d have to use the spoof features like in Firefox to get it to say something different. (Like telling it your chrome so it doesn’t block your browser on certain pages)

          https://whatsmyos.com/

          I know in Cromite I can do some of it from here:

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            4 hours ago

            You can get the browser version. But as per OP StatCounter says this

            Statcounter is a web analytics service. Our tracking code is installed on more than 1.5 million sites globally.

            I am assuming these are some extra js files or external scripts that the website will try to load, it won’t be part of the native website itself. Adblocker will completely prevent those file or websites from loading in the first place.

            My initial point might not be quite right though, in the sense of Linux might be higher by pure numbers but not by percentage. The sheer number of people using Windows, even if a small portion use adblocker could outnumber the Linux users.