According to Pornhub data (yes seriously!) Linux market share in 2024 increased more than 40% relative to 5.1% of all users.

I don't like their company because they are also like the meta of porn in the sense that they bought up all their competitors and have made a monolith service

apparently: the same goes for its patrons; i'm sure i'm responsible for atleast 1 percentage point. lol

Apart from hosting an ad service that served malware, and having their user database leaked more than once.

I have nothing constructive to say. I laughed too much at this.

Not what the distro meant by release

take my angry upvote!

As long as you don't use any of the windows and use the front door like my pet penguin, I won't mind.
And there's a kernel of truth in there and by that I don't mean the kernel of an apple.

We don't even look at porn on our computer anymore- we look at it on our phone?

I'm somewhat proud my generation is actively seeking out parody porn. Those videos tend to be higher budget and more sex positive (less gonzo misogyny).

Edit: well, should caveat that by saying relatively less misogynist

Is that supposed to be they watch videos in vertical...or they get off on watching vertical videos?

"Oh yeah, tilt that camera. Tilt it harder. There we go. Oh yeah! It's standing straight up."

I'm sorry about my generation. Pretty ashamed about the vertical video thing

Vertical video is better for content focused on a single standing performer, because it allows as much of the screen resolution as possible to show the body. Horizontal is better for a performer lying down or any traditional horizontal sex acts, for the same reason.

I'm probably reading a little too far into this, but IMO Gen Z is much less interested in "simulations" of intercourse and is more interested in something "real", i.e someone doing a dance. Intercourse feels like a fantasy, like you're supposed to imagine that you're the one having intercourse, it's that fantasy which is appealing. Something like dancing or dirty talking is more honest about what it is, since a video of someone dancing or talking is essentially the same experience as if they were actually there in front of you. I believe that because Gen Z is more digitally native than older generations, they see digital content not as a substitute or fantasy for a real thing, but rather as a real thing in itself, and the nature of the content they consume reflects that. Another example of this is the shift from real-life streamers who fake personalities but pretend that they are presenting their real selves, to vtubers - who implicitly acknowledge that they are playing a fictional character for their stream as symbolized by their avatars. The human streamers are a fantasy substitute for a real human friend, but with a vtuber the content does not pretend to be different than what it actually is - a pretend character putting on a show for your enjoyment. By acknowledging its artificiality and integrating it into the content itself, it shifts from being something "fake" and "simulated" to being something "real". To me it's the exact same dynamic manifesting in a different area.

Now of course, I do understand that vertical content also simply means you don't need to rotate your phone, and that Gen Z is almost exclusively using the Internet on the phone vs. the desktop as older generations will. But this too is essentially a reflection of the feeling that digital content is not an artificial recreation confined to a specific display area (a TV or computer) but rather perpetually available (your phone), as would be appropriate for something which has taken on the status of being real rather than fake. The two forces reinforce each other, imo.

Boomers = 1950-1964
Gen X = 1965-1979
Gen Y = 1980-1994
Gen Z = 1995-2009
Gen α = 2010-2025

So ages

18-29
30-44
45-59
60+

Just open private browser window.

Georg Hub, is that you?

My man out here making the library of Alexandria for porn

It does correlate with the numbers Steam released a few days or weeks ago.

The pornhub blog is surprisingly good reading every once in a while. They take their data analysis seriously.

This chart is fascinating, although it's unfortunate that so many states don't have a specific category assigned to them. I just can't help but notice how many weeabo degenerates (I am part of said degenerates) must be living in Wisconsin, and Oregon being furry makes me wonder how many furries live there.

If your kink is Penguin ...

They said in the report that they have grown marketshare in Asia and Africa, as less people use apple in those regions the percentage dropped.

I have to ask: What kind of browser is Android? Do people watch porn from WebView? Wouldn't that just be Chrome?

65.2% (globally) are Android so technically we're winning!

Kinda hard to use your desktop in bed or hiding in the bathroom.

Tablet pornography must be nice.

That seems like someone who made a plan, and then lived out their best evening.

I imagine those tablet Pornhub users probably prepared themselves a nice mixed drink, set out some snacks, and got all cozy in a bathrobe first.

Tablet pornhub sounds like some kind of intentional self care.

You wouldn't be surprised :3

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Yes, it was last year, sorry you missed it!

A Foss and federated alternative to onlyfans is more achievable I guess, because pornhub nowadays has to verify the owner of the content.

More wankers every year.

Windows with the most popular chrome version to avoid standing out

I guess teenagers who do not have access to any device but a 3DS could have a good reason for using it

I don't know why your browser would report itself as a linux browser just because it's behind a proxy or VPN

Or, and hear me out, what if they actually have good engineers and know how to sanitise their analytics? And at the risk of sounding crazy, what if the reason that the Linux share is rising is because it’s genuinely becoming more popular?

Crazy talk, right?

User agent logging is often done by running javascript locally on a machine, so the vpn would just pass the javascript to the local machine on which it would be run, so the data wouldn't be effected that way.

Sometimes TLS fingerprinting is done to try to identify bots and not sure if bots would be included. They probably would be included because if they were blocked, then the javascript catching user would never be run on their machine, although I'm unsure of whether such bots would run useragent fingerprinting javascriot yo try to blend in or block it to avoid unneeded processing.

"..while more Windows and Linux users came"

I'm very confused about the significant drop in Apple users as well, but I'm not sure that it's purely caused by a userbase increase. E.g. in mobile, for or this big of a change to occur you would need the userbase to increase by 38% and for none of those new users to be iPhone users. I don't feel like that's a realistic YoY increase in users at this late stage.

A lot more people have android phones than iphones that’s all that is. If anything iOS is overrepresented

Anecdotally, I only visit PH on my phone and I use incognito mode sometimes, which I'm just guessing would count as a unique visit. Probably a lot of people are doing the same thing, and globally more people run Android than iOS.

It runs on a lot more devices like TV boxes idk if that is counted

Kids whose schools set up their chrome books inadequately and who found a way around the strict controls to watch porn.

Same here tbh, but I never used my Linux device for it in the first place, so....