I was idly browsing browser (heh) market share graphs when I noticed there was a bump for Chrome in Asia.

None of the obvious countries had it, but I eventually traced it back to unlikely Vietnam. What happened there?! Why did Chrome crush all other browsers in may all of a sudden?

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/viet-nam

  • Gwen@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    67·
    7 days ago

    View the data by ”Browser Version” and it is revealed that Chrome 112, an old version, suddenly got popular. Doesn’t really seem to be something people would voluntarily chose to use, so there is something else going on.

    Pure speculation: some popular product in Vietnam got a software update and is misidentified as Chrome 112, whereas before it was missing completely in the dataset. Maybe a iptv box or something.

    • Godort@lemmy.ca
      511·
      7 days ago

      Also pure speculation: this might be the user agent that any AI scraping bots are reporting to be.

      • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        111·
        7 days ago

        IIRC there was a point in time that the version of chrome was being reported incorrectly a few years ago