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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

statcounter checks user agent strings. it probably depends on the mac browser used to report the user agent string.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I know. Then they process those user agent strings to decide what OS it is. The question is why are they treating OSX and macOS as different OSes when they are the same? It was literally just a rebrand.