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Pornhub is one of the pre-eminent porn sites on the web. Each year Pornhub releases a year in review post with anonymous details about the site's users. More and more Linux users are visiting Pornhub, Linux saw an impressive 14% increase in traffic share in 2016.
[...] While Windows continues to dominate when it comes to which operating system users count on to watch Pornhub (about 80% of desktop users), Mac OS and Linux are on the rise, with Mac OS up 8% in traffic share and Linux up an impressive 14%.
Moving onto mobile. The playing field is pretty even here, with Android and Apple iOS almost at par with one another. Android leading with 3% more users on Pornhub than Apple iOS (47% of Pornhub's mobile users). Android's mobile market share has increase by 5% over the last year.
Look, it wasn't all me. I swear.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/article/3158159/linux/linux-use-on-pornhub-surged-14-in-2016.html
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Saturday January 21 2017, @02:46AM
So either guys who understand privacy and telemetry, or high school dudes who found linux, are using pornhub. Not seeing any significant "I give a shit" hits here
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 21 2017, @03:34AM
The only significant bit of data seems to be that more people are becoming aware of privacy issues.
Alternatively, it may mean that more Linux users are frustrated nerds who can't get laid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @06:05AM
On that topic, I just noticed that, apparently to mark Trump Day, XKCD has made its site HTTPS-only.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @07:01AM
On his last day as president, Obama's CIO says all new .gov domains will be HTTPS-only [theregister.co.uk]
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