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For those who skipped the article, this data is exclusively from users who installed Avast "security" products, which apparently are sufficiently invasive that
by ac29 7y ago
For those who skipped the article, this data is exclusively from users who installed Avast "security" products, which apparently are sufficiently invasive that they get this sort of data and sell it to third parties.
The article thinks this dataset is close enough to representative to present their conclusions as more or less facts. I'm not sure I'd make the same conclusion.
- mips_avatar 7y agoI don’t trust the avast data. According to Microsoft bing has 9% market share. While avast data shows it as 1.4%. https://mobile.twitter.com/MSFTAdvertising/status/898208047578849280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E898208047578849280&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Fajax%2Finset%2Fiframe%3Fid%3Dtwitter-898208047578849280%26autosize%3D1 https://mobile.twitter.com/MSFTAdvertising/status/8982080475...
- acheofgrass 7y agoYou trust Microsoft's number here? 33% market share in the US? I
- mips_avatar 7y agoI trust Microsoft and avast to not lie about facts as they can get in big trouble for that. Rather I don’t believe this data from avast is indicative of the market broadly.