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[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 198 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

Pornhub is lowkey a very skilled tech company. Delivering a quality video platform on the scale they do is incredibly difficult.

Also obligatory: Year of the Linux Desktop! 🎉

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 78 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Netflix but for horny people

[–] SilverCode@programming.dev 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

"Netflix and chill" has lead me to believe those 2 Ven diagrams overlap quite a lot

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[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 43 points 5 days ago

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

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 20 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I made it to the final round of interviewing with them a couple years ago. I think it would have been interesting to work for them. They have PHP and even some Laravel in their stack.

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Do you guys realize how much 40% actually is in a single year? That's crazy. Don't just look at the 5.1%.

I'm sure it's heavily influenced by the Steam Deck, it being a great device for porn and all, but still.

[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

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

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Windows 11 not installing on "older" machines is big too.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago

We really need to thank Microsoft. They're pushing a LOT of people to try out the free stuff.

[–] procapra@lemmy.ml 26 points 4 days ago

Linux users are gooners confirmed.

[–] transebding_the_binary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 76 points 5 days ago (4 children)

the age of linux is cumming upon os.

ok this is really bad , ill see myself out....

[–] witness_me@lemmy.ml 23 points 5 days ago

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

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 days ago

Not what the distro meant by release

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[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 104 points 5 days ago

Probably Steam Deck users with that handheld device in one hand and their handheld device in the other.

[–] Nyadia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

My apologies, this data is misleading. Most of the new traffic is actually just me mass downloading and data hoarding porn across thousands of VMs. Whenever I need to rub one out I ssh into one of them and watch it that way. Keeps it off my main machine and keeps my browser history clean.

[–] gndagreborn@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Rube Goldberg machine but for masturbation.

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[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 days ago

That's all me ur welcome gais

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 4 days ago (4 children)

So what you're saying is that there are more wankers on Linux nowadays!???

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[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I am very suspicious of the -26% Apple marketshare. It makes me feel like there's more to this than it seems at first. There's no way 26% of Apple users stopped using Apple devices within a year.

Edit: maybe it could be caused by a large user base increase that shifted the demographics, but this fast? And the PornHub bans across US states started only this year for the most part if I'm not mistaken, so it shouldn't affect this data?

[–] Spezi@feddit.org 17 points 4 days ago (5 children)

2024 was the release of iOS 17.4, when Apple allowed third party browsers to use their own engine instead of WebKit/Safari as a layer beneath. So it could very well be that Firefox Mobile and Chrome Mobile on iOS don’t get registered as iOS Device in this survey due to their user agent.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

No browser uses a different engine yet (presumably because Apple only allows them to offer this in the EU, under draconian conditions).

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[–] Agosagror@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Now I want to see the usage stats for e621.

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[–] rottenmummy@lemmy.ml 49 points 5 days ago

That's one horney Linux user

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 41 points 5 days ago (19 children)

New gens are ruining everything - "vertical video" gen-z, really?
Y'all need a spanking.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Those gen y and x ages are whack

Also, I hate zoomers and their vertical videos too

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[–] gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 5 days ago

Sorry guys... My gooning streaks are skewing the data; I'm the masturbations Georg and shouldn't have been counted...

[–] lemmy@programming.dev 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Firefox have 8 percent on desktop that's great

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[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 25 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Does porn work well on Linux ? looking to switch

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[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 4 days ago

More wankers every year.

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

If they're anything like me, it's the old laptop that you'd install Linux on as an experiment.

And maybe that laptop was only ah... Semi-retired at the time.

[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

That link is amazing... they even have maps 😂 !

[–] Troz@sh.itjust.works 35 points 5 days ago

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

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