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Linux's market share in North America has breached 10% for the first time, says StatCounter (www.xda-developers.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50206822

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[–] 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

StatCounter are their own data source.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    Statcounter monitors traffic on every website that implements it, the majority of those are likely Cloudflare or similar DNS, but we don't really know for sure.

    The source is NOT people who visit Statcounter.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    What does DNS have to do with anything? DNS isn't involved in this data gathering. Cloudflare uses DNS to enable proxying, proxying is how they gather OS data.

    Statcounter's data is from visitors to pages with their JS embedded. That's their whole business model. No one said it was visitors to the Statcounter website iself.

    Have you considered that you might not actually know what you're talking about?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    You not knowing what a DNS is in this context or what CloudFlare does sort of makes a reasonable response impossible without typing multiple paragraphs.

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