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Pornhub saw a 22.4% increase in Linux traffic over 2025
(www.pornhub.com)
EDIT (2025-12-19T09:08Z): Whoops! I totally didn't see that this had already been posted to this community ^[2]^. I didn't mean to repost it. My bad!
References
- Type: Image. Title: "Traffic by Operating System". Publisher: ["Pornhub">"2025 YEAR IN REVIEW"]. Published: 2025-12-03. Accessed: 2025-12-16T23:00Z. URI: https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2025-year-in-review.
- Location: §"Traffic by Operating System".
- Type: Post. Title: "Linux traffic has grown 22.4% in PH this year". Author: "maam" ("@maam@feddit.uk"). Publisher: ["sh.itjust.works">"Linux" ("!linux@programming.dev")]. Published: 2025-12-09T1;31:57Z. Accessed: 2025-12-19T09:10Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51299445.
Probably some data hoarders scraping that shit
sounds likely, since alot of PH thats been sanatized ends up on non-PH sites.
Would they identify as Linux though and not simply as Windows?
Depends on the default use agent for yt-dlp I guess
Also sometimes websites have a fallback for systems with weaker DRM