Netmarketshare , a data statistics agency, released a market share report for October 2020 . The report shows that the market share of Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system has risen sharply. In addition, the share of the Chromium version of the Edge browser has also increased significantly, while the market share of Chrome has declined slightly.
But this will be Netmarketshare’s last browser data report. Netmarketshare stated that they have been fighting against bots that distort statistics, and changes in browser user agent strings will make it impossible to obtain accurate information in the future. data.
Foreign media bleepingcomputer reported that NetMarketShare announced on Sunday that it plans to close its public browser share reporting tool, which has a history of more than 14 years.
The NetMarketShare website is still active, but starting from November 1, Net Application stated that it will “retire NetMarketShare in its current form” and will not release new monthly statistics in the future .
The reason why NetMarketShare shut down this service is because of a recent change proposed by Google. The company stated on its website that Google’s “user agent client prompt” will break NetMarketShare’s device detection technology and it will cause long-term inaccuracies.
Earlier this year, Google announced that it would abolish “User-Agent user agent” and use “Client Hints” instead.
Google said that moving Chrome to the new system will reduce the complexity of updating User-Agent strings and improve user privacy.
Naijatechnews.com is informed that User Agent is a string used to find out information about your browser and operating system for statistical purposes. When you visit a website, the browser sends a user User Agent string to the website’s server. This string is basically used by online publishers to identify the browser’s name, version, and operating system.
User agent strings are also used by websites to identify visitor information and provide a personalized or limited experience for certain web browsers.
In the proposal, Google suggested abolishing “user agents” because these strings have privacy risks and are often used by fingerprint reader scripts to track users.
NetMarketShare does not accept the increasing inaccuracy, but decided to retire NetMarketShare in its current form.
“In addition, we will also focus on zombie detection and removal as a key part of the quality control process. It is the most complex part of our code base. Over time, managing this process becomes more and more Difficult. Therefore, instead of accepting increasing inaccuracy, we think now is a good time to end it,” the company said.
Net Applications promises that NetMarketShare will reappear at a certain point in time, focusing on e-commerce trends and verifiable user data, but no new data will be released at this time. The statistics for October 2020 are the final figures.
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