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sanitation@sanitation@lemmy.today
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Linux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbers

www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/03/linux-didnt-just-eat-10-of-windows-market-share-ai-bots-are-inflating-the-numbers/
Windows LatestLinux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbersNo, Linux desktop market share has not crossed 10% in North America, and Windows is not suddenly losing millions of users. 2026 is not the year of Linux, for those who care. If anything, it’s the year the internet died, because the entire spike appears to be driven by AI bots. Almost every month, we […]
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XLE@XLE@piefed.social
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Replying to an earlier post

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.

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roofuskit@roofuskit@lemmy.world
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Replying to @⁨XLE@piefed.social⁩

Chrome also implemented its adblock restrictions.

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jol@jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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That barely moved the needle when they released Manifest v3. Why now?

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roofuskit@roofuskit@lemmy.world
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Because all the restrictions are in place now. They enabled them in phases.

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