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2mo ago

2024 Pornhub Visitors by Operating System

We reached 5.1% market share!

We need to grow that 0.5%!

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The steam deck does seem like a good device for "bedtime" browsing.
More seriously, this data is probably less biased toward tech literate users than most similar surveys that get published here. This is really encouraging
- Lets get past 7% next year ;)
  
  let's aim for 6.9%
  
  Finally, 2025 will be the year of the Linux desktop
  
  I'm doing my part!
- It's a little heavy to hold 1 handed for that long.
  
  That's what you get the kickstand attachment for

The year of the Linux desktop!
- Dammit, you beat me to it
  
  Dammit, you beat meat to it!
- Valve is about to make this happen.

The most compelling evidence I've ever seen for the elusive "year of the Linux Desktop".
- Indeed.
  Also great evidence that Windows is not dying, no matter what the Linux fanboys claim.
  
  The thing is Linux doesn't need to topple Windows. Linux just needs a big enough market share for companies to go "maybe we should also offer official support for Linux?"
  
  Oh god, don't say that. You're going to summon them. I'm getting out of here...
  
  Yeah, that part is sad.
  Although... at risk of being in the picture, we don't know the mobile vs. desktop change. It could be that Windows is just dying more slowly than Mac OS (and ChromeOS, probably because schools block porn).
- Windows' growth is double the absolute percentage of Linux's total even with its growth.
  It's essentially the year of "Not Apple."
- Always pornhub

and I thought iPhones were for wankers ☞( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞
- Guilty as charged.

Remember kids, when you watch porn on Windows, Bill watches with you.
- I'm counting on it.
- I hope he likes my taste
- A better, more factual, reminder is that if you're not using a VPN, your ISP is recording all of that, and potentially selling that information.
  This is not fear mongering, like the comment I'm replying to. It's very real.
  
  They can see what website you go to, and how much data you exchange with it, but not what specific page on that site you're looking at or what specific data you send (for example my ISP can't tell that I'm making this specific comment).
  Provided the site is using SSL of course.
  
  True, though all they can see is the domains/IPs and the rough traffic flow, nothing specific. And I'm not fearmongering, I'm making a joke. :P

0.4% Other: BSD-BDSM
- BMSD is now KinkOS.
  
  The Kink Desktop Environment is my favorite.

Hypothesis: Pornhub is effected by a lot of the bans in places like Texas. I don't see ChromeOS or Apple users as the kind of folks who know how to find their ways around those bans, but Windows and Linux users are more likely to via VPNs and such.
- Affected*. I don't think special effects are involved.
  
  effect verb
  1 : to cause to come into being
  2 a : to bring about often by surmounting obstacles : accomplish effect a settlement of a dispute
  b : to put into operation
  Effect is a perfectly fine verb. It's wrong in this case, but it doesn't imply the use of special effects.
  
  You say that but I added after effects to the money shot. (It's confetti).
- Possibly a factor, but I don't think a quarter of Apple users are affected by those bans.
- I see what you mean but it doesn’t take much to download a VPN app and hit the big green button
- I had the same thought! Lol, on reddit I'd lay ideas like this out and get an ocean of "Reeeeee!" in response to it from Apple fans. But I think it's very true.
- Posted above but I will put it here for visibility also.
  Texas is the largest state to be affected by the pornhub ban, and Texas makes up 9% of the US population. Including all 12 of the states with pornhub restrictions, the total is actually 24% of the US population. Those are big enough numbers to swing stats.
  Now you have to consider which users are more likely to know how to use a VPN on their system and realize that a lot of traffic is being re-routed through other states and countries.

Let's see porn categories breakdown by os...
- I bet I know it'll be number one under Linux.
  
  What will be number one under Linux?

Proves linux users are sexual deviants
- Pornhub is pretty vanilla
  
  not even that, a lot of stuff on there is effectively just reality TV and just makes me die inside when i see the thumbnails

sad to see the 3ds isn't on there this year

Who knew this would be the year Linux on the wankoff.

Chrome OS
Those are supposed to be for homework...
- ChromeOS is for the internet and the internet is for porn. Ergo, vis-a-vis, concordantly...
- Anatomy & physiology research
- Your school administrator is watching with you!

All the iPhone users can afford OnlyFans.
- jokes aside it's probably because of US states banning porn sites, and Apple makes up for like 80% of US phones
  
  Yeah, except the states dumb enough to ban porn only have like 1% of the US population.
  
  You're way off. In November 2024 iOS only made up 56% of the current market share. In October, android and iOS nearly achieved parity with one another.
  https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-states-of-america
  Worldwide, Android holds 71% of the market share. I wonder if this will change if and when Chinese companies gain traction with their own alternative OS's, though.
- How? Id imagine they broke after purchasing their $900 monitor stand
- Or iphone users are only a small percentage of phone users?
  This graph isn't US-centric and Android is a lot more popular in the world. The US is the skewed one here.

6.9% when?

Is the huge shift shift from iOS to Android to the fact iPhone users are typically less tech savvy, so places that banned porn hub (like Texas) effectively banned those users, who also weren't savvy enough to use a VPN?
- Which doesn't include any of the kids those moronic laws are purported to protect.
- I was going to suggest the cost of living crisis has made people adopt more reasonably priced phone options

My operating system:

My pecker:

It’s the year of the Linux desktop!!!

The beatings will continue, even after morale has improved!!
- I'm doing my part!
- The hangings will continue until productivity returns to normal levels
- In this case the beatings have improved morale.

I'm really curious as to what OSs comprise those "Other", both for desktop and mobile
- TempleOS
  
  That'd sinful!
- Stuff like BSD, Minix, maybe some curios individuals on Solaris? For mobile, Symbian, Windows Mobile? Also, probably all that don't report their OS in the user agent.
  
  For the desktop maybe Haiku and Plan9 as well. I don't know if those would be more or less popular than Minix and Solaris though.
- Plan 9
- Probably things like TVs and set top boxes.

Apple is slipping.

I’d be curious to compare this with total internet usage shares
- The internet penetration rate is 67.4% at this time
  
  That's an entire 67.4% higher than my penetration rate percentage.

No one with "that's me" and "furiously masturbating"?
- Arch actually.

0,4% of desktop users come form Solaris?
- 0.0002% come from Plan 9, somehow.

I don't like how the bar graphs, obviously supposed to show percentage points, actually show relative percent change.
- What graph works better to show relative percentage change?
  
  Bar graph of absolute percentages before & after overlaid. For example, a darker outline rectangle for 2023 and a lighter filled rectangle for 2024. Or just two rectangles next to each other, as lots of business charts do.
  
  A line graph shows proportional change over time inherently. "50% growth" isn't something that ever justifies being presented as the focus of a graph of any sort.

Vrooom go OSS!

Conclusion: People with linux fuck.
- People with Linux *rub~
- Sometimes, occasionally, even other people.

According to statcounter WE are currently at 4.03% market share.
- Sorry, I think extra 1% is me rubbing more than one out a day.

Now adjust it for total market share of the OSs and you'll arrive at the conclusion, everybody wanks equally.

Haha hello anon

Pornhub wrapped, haha. I do appreciate the stats, though.

I'm curious about mobile vs desktop.
- Yeah. I suspect most of the desktop platforms are shrinking. Maybe even all of them.

Forget grow by 0.5, we need to grow by 1.8%!

Apple BTFO.

Or you can stop using a website that exploits women but sure. I thought Linux users have more than two neurons firing off. get your hand out of your pants and back on the keybord, there's PRs to do!
- Dude, this is capitalism. Everyone is being exploited. I don't know that the PornHub, or the company that owns them, is any worse than any other large corporation.
  
  there was sarcasm mixed in this, but i am not fan of some porn.

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