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I’ve been wondering how many Linux users are being listed as unknown by statcounter out of curiosity. There has been a big global bump “Unknown”.

Obvious ones are UserAgent spoofers Vpn users but I feel like that’s pretty niche. I’m wondering if SteamOS, Endeavour and BSD show up as Unknown. Furthermore, will just all non-Ubuntu based OS?

  • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
    16·
    8 months ago

    I’m (deliberately) being listed as Windows, because some websites are cancer when they smell your Linux.

    I honestly don’t remember what happened, but I remember raging at it about 7 years ago, before changing the user agent and since then I’ve always done it like this.

    • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social
      17·
      8 months ago

      because some websites are cancer when they smell your Linux

      Oh really? This is the first I’ve heard of this. I sometimes have to spoof being Chrome though.

      • ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
        3·
        8 months ago

        Disney had a broken tracker that didnt made the page load when the agent was Linux

      • flashgnash@lemm.ee
        1·
        8 months ago

        I do the same, often set to windows 10 Chrome because websites will silently shittify themselves based on you using Firefox and/or Linux