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Linux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbers (www.windowslatest.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] freeman@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The kind that wants to not appear as a bot is unlikely to send a Linux user agent even if running on Linux.

[โ€“] 8uurg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

It doesn't have to be on purpose. Web crawlers like Google's specifically identify themselves as a bot. A headless browser just acts like any normal browser, and uses the same user agent as one, just controlled by code rather than a keyboard and mouse.