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Linux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbers
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While this sounds like cope, I'm leaning towards believing it. Firefox also just saw a 50% increase in users... Or the data got messed up in some way that nobody else (including Mozilla themselves) is able to detect and report.
Organic Linux usage jumping a full 100% seems even less likely.
Chrome also implemented its adblock restrictions.
That barely moved the needle when they released Manifest v3. Why now?
Because all the restrictions are in place now. They enabled them in phases.