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Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America (linuxiac.com)
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[–] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    In that case they'd bump the stats for any os, not just Linux specifically

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