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minus-squareirelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·16 hours 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-up3·12 hours 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-up4·10 hours agoIn that case they’d bump the stats for any os, not just Linux specifically
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours 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
It could be that they don’t smartly loop through operating systems based on the actual distribution. Like an even split Windows/macOS/Linux.