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minus-squareirelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·4 days agoScrapers wouldn’t identify themselves as using Linux. They want to blend in. I think it’s more likely for Linux users to visit the site in the first place.
minus-squareqqq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoI assume they’d cycle through a list of valid user agents. That might make their noise a constant for all major OS’s if they did that
minus-squareirelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoIn that case they’d bump the stats for any os, not just Linux specifically
minus-squareirelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoReading comprehension is overrated anyways
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoIt could be that they don’t smartly loop through operating systems based on the actual distribution. Like an even split Windows/macOS/Linux.
Scrapers wouldn’t identify themselves as using Linux. They want to blend in.
I think it’s more likely for Linux users to visit the site in the first place.
I assume they’d cycle through a list of valid user agents. That might make their noise a constant for all major OS’s if they did that
In that case they’d bump the stats for any os, not just Linux specifically
That’s exactly what I said…
Reading comprehension is overrated anyways
It could be that they don’t smartly loop through operating systems based on the actual distribution. Like an even split Windows/macOS/Linux.