jonathan

The linux channel in there was a shit hole, in fairness. Constant bickering and trolling.

I’ve been a paying Cloudflare customer for over 10 years and have had calls with their CTO. I don’t know what Cloudflare does? Lol.

What does DNS have to do with anything? DNS isn’t involved in this data gathering. Cloudflare uses DNS to enable proxying, proxying is how they gather OS data.

Statcounter’s data is from visitors to pages with their JS embedded. That’s their whole business model. No one said it was visitors to the Statcounter website iself.

Have you considered that you might not actually know what you’re talking about?

StatCounter are their own data source.

Statcounter doesn’t have sophisticated bot detection like Cloudflare. Look at Cloudflare’s stats for the same period and filter for “likely human”. The percentage craters back to reality. So while I think “The loading times on headless alone would give them away.” is total bullshit, they can still be detectable using other heuristics and an awful lot of machine learning.

My money’s on such a jump just being AI bots using headless browsers.

CachyOS is not ready for beginners, the clue you ignored was in the installer.