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Exactly. There will be sampling bias. Opera in particular makes it very easy to turn off sending referrer information (one click on the quick preferences menu
by T-hawk 14y ago
Exactly. There will be sampling bias. Opera in particular makes it very easy to turn off sending referrer information (one click on the quick preferences menu), so Opera will be underrepresented in any data corpus derived from the referrer.
- SkyMarshal 14y agoOr worse, Opera users will change their user agent string to Mozilla so as not to have to deal with ua-sniffing websites that work fine on Opera but warn you anyway about using a unsupported browser.
- unreal37 14y agoI saw the story, but didn't click the link. So it's definitely not going to match what pg and team see when they examine their logs for actual HN Readers.
- zalew 14y agoit would be great if pg published these stats