That seems highly unlikely to me. Could a reason be website scrapers for AI using different user agents to prevent being blocked? The recent reports of different projects plagued by scrapers fit the timeline
Yeah i read that too. But how well is it working? I mean that’s what the news was all about the last few months. A lot off projects were having trouble blocking the bots because they were trying and succeeded to circumvent detection measures.
Yeah, that’s a good question. I don’t remember reading any documentation from Statcounter speaking about how well that bot detection and removal algorithms work. The last company I worked for did data collection, as we recorded all kinds of metrics from users. We had a team that focused on bot detection. Mostly it involved discovering the bot net and then removing all of their metrics that were accounted for in the system. Then updating the bloom filters so that any further metrics from the known bots would be ignored. Companies were paying millions of dollars for our contracts and every click was getting itemized and charged for. So, trust me, it was very important for my old company to discover and eliminate bots aggressively.
Statcounters sells their statistics and not the data from what I understand. So it does beg the question, how aggressive are they?!
In Finland, Linux market share has jumped from 4% to 24% within the last 6 months.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/finland
That seems highly unlikely to me. Could a reason be website scrapers for AI using different user agents to prevent being blocked? The recent reports of different projects plagued by scrapers fit the timeline
If you read the FAQ, Statcounter detects and removes bot data.
Yeah i read that too. But how well is it working? I mean that’s what the news was all about the last few months. A lot off projects were having trouble blocking the bots because they were trying and succeeded to circumvent detection measures.
Yeah, that’s a good question. I don’t remember reading any documentation from Statcounter speaking about how well that bot detection and removal algorithms work. The last company I worked for did data collection, as we recorded all kinds of metrics from users. We had a team that focused on bot detection. Mostly it involved discovering the bot net and then removing all of their metrics that were accounted for in the system. Then updating the bloom filters so that any further metrics from the known bots would be ignored. Companies were paying millions of dollars for our contracts and every click was getting itemized and charged for. So, trust me, it was very important for my old company to discover and eliminate bots aggressively.
Statcounters sells their statistics and not the data from what I understand. So it does beg the question, how aggressive are they?!
Wow! What caused that? Orange man?
I have no idea, but it does match the Orange timeline.
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If you look back in 2022, you see the same ramp up. I expect ramp down soon.
Wow, that’s crazy. Any particular reason for that?
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