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submitted 8 months ago by olafurp@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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?

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[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 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 points 7 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 points 7 months ago

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

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 7 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

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 points 7 months ago

As far as I can see the other is Temple OS (or at least everyone on Lemmy says so)

[-] GuyNoIRQ@infosec.pub 9 points 7 months ago

BSD, Haiku, Plan9, RiscOS, etc. Probably mostly BSD.

[-] moody@lemmings.world 1 points 7 months ago

Temple OS is a meme.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

TempleOS does not have any kind of networking (so no useragents), as funny as it would be to see people trying to daily drive it

[-] justin@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 7 months ago

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