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[-] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] qqq@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

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

[-] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

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

[-] qqq@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

That's exactly what I said...

[-] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago

Reading comprehension is overrated anyways

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

It could be that they don't smartly loop through operating systems based on the actual distribution. Like an even split Windows/macOS/Linux.

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