It's much more likely to be a methodology issue than that Firefox's install base suddenly grew 240% in such a short period of time. Maybe some AI scraper juicing the numbers? Mozilla's telemetry could confirm this, so if they don't start bragging about a huge MAU increase, I'd assume this is wrong.
Seems wrong. W3Counter shows the same % for June as for May (note that it's not only counting desktop share so it's much lower at 1.4%). https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
Chrome has enshittified so much that I don't know how anyone uses it.
It actively violates users and shoves trackers and malware up their wazoo. And you're stuck in the cage with the abuser. There's no way to turn off the fucking ads.
The Google Chrome team ought to be ashamed for what they've done.
I'm hoping the AI era serves Google a much-needed comeuppance.
Why was this auto [flagged] by HN? I had to vouch this.
Edit: Aaaaand, [flagged] again in 26 minutes with no explanation.
Edit2: Since I'm "posting too fast" once again, I'll just have to reply to you here. "flagged by users" in four minutes? I don't think so. Besides if hacking statscounter was so easy that it happens monthly as you claim (despite that not being proven out on the chart), it seems like a relevant discussion for a site named "Hacker News."
[flagged] means flagged by users; if it was done by the system, it'd be [dead].
I can't speak for others, but the reason I flagged it is that the number is untrustworthy and absurd. This is not an isolated case, Statcounter has these ridiculous errors on a monthly basis on one stat or another, before they silently fix whatever was wrong and the numbers swing wildly the other way. A discussion of a Statcounter spike is as fruitful as a discussion about the output of an RNG.
Not sure about this. See Firefox’s internal stats: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
It's much more likely to be a methodology issue than that Firefox's install base suddenly grew 240% in such a short period of time. Maybe some AI scraper juicing the numbers? Mozilla's telemetry could confirm this, so if they don't start bragging about a huge MAU increase, I'd assume this is wrong.
Wait, is this correct? Firefox moved from 5% to 12% in one month? That seems unlikely...
Didn't Google recently remove the flag that let Manifest V2 ad blockers work from Chrome?
I wonder if Firefox is a better user agent string for bots or AI?
Or perhaps some big IT departments are switching the employee base from Chrome to Firefox because it now has better ad blockers?
A mass of end-users switching browsers on their phones or home computers doesn't seem to line up with the reality that I'm living in though, though.
Seems wrong. W3Counter shows the same % for June as for May (note that it's not only counting desktop share so it's much lower at 1.4%). https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
Yeah, really looks like some sort of data error
Chrome has enshittified so much that I don't know how anyone uses it.
It actively violates users and shoves trackers and malware up their wazoo. And you're stuck in the cage with the abuser. There's no way to turn off the fucking ads.
The Google Chrome team ought to be ashamed for what they've done.
I'm hoping the AI era serves Google a much-needed comeuppance.
When Firefox has an internal adblock like Brave, I will come back.
Why was this auto [flagged] by HN? I had to vouch this.
Edit: Aaaaand, [flagged] again in 26 minutes with no explanation.
Edit2: Since I'm "posting too fast" once again, I'll just have to reply to you here. "flagged by users" in four minutes? I don't think so. Besides if hacking statscounter was so easy that it happens monthly as you claim (despite that not being proven out on the chart), it seems like a relevant discussion for a site named "Hacker News."
[flagged] means flagged by users; if it was done by the system, it'd be [dead].
I can't speak for others, but the reason I flagged it is that the number is untrustworthy and absurd. This is not an isolated case, Statcounter has these ridiculous errors on a monthly basis on one stat or another, before they silently fix whatever was wrong and the numbers swing wildly the other way. A discussion of a Statcounter spike is as fruitful as a discussion about the output of an RNG.
broken link maybe?
Because it’s BS. Firefox usage telemetry is public. There is no such increase.