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I wonder what the "unknown" 25% are.

• sanmarzano 3mo ago
  Maybe windows users who weren’t smart enough to correctly answer the survey question? Nevermind. These stats are computed by website visits: https://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology https://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology So I guess web browsers that obfuscate?
• modriano 3mo ago
  Looking at the FAQ for the data source [0], specifically this part > What methodology is used to calculate Statcounter Global Stats? > Statcounter is a web analytics service. Our tracking code is installed on more than 1 million sites globally. These sites cover various activities and geographic locations. Every month, we record billions of page views to these sites. For each page view, we analyse the browser/operating system/screen resolution used and we establish if the page view is from a mobile device. I assume they infer the OS and stuff from the User Agent and other stuff in the headers of requests. And I assume scrapers collecting data for AI systems don't include the standard User Agent stuff Statcounter classified when they made their data collection tooling. So my guess would be non-browser-automation style scrapers that are getting around defenses and have header data Statcounter doesn't know how to classify to an OS. [0] https://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology https://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology
• natas 3mo ago
  it's a bit skewed, I suspect 25% are bots and the like that don't present an identifiable user-agent. Also, a lot of bots probably identify themselves as windows to "blend-in".
• jerhewet 3mo ago
  In my case it's Windows 7. I have to override the useragent in Firefox nowadays; Hacker News now rejects any attempts to login or browse the site if I don't fake the browser useragent.