NetMarketShare announced on Sunday that it plans to stop public reporting on browsers, which have been around for more than 14 years.
Net Applications, the owner of the NetMarketShare service, is known as a provider of usage statistics for Web browsers, operating systems and applications. According to Net Applications, the data provided by NetMarketShare is the source for "tens of thousands of articles and publications".
The NetMarketShare website is still active, but as of November 1, Net Application reports that "NetMarketShare has stopped working in its current form" and no new monthly statistics will be released.
The NetMarketShare service is shutting down due to a recent changeς που πρότεινε η Google. Η NetMarketShare ανέφερε ότι η λειτουργία “User Agent Client Google Hints ”will no longer help detect devices and cause inaccuracies.
Earlier this year, Google announced that it wants to freeze the User-Agent.
Google stated that moving Chrome to a new system will reduce the complexity of the User-Agent operation and improve it privacy of users.
For those who do not know, User Agent is a function used to find information about program your browser and the functional σας σύστημα για στατιστικούς σκοπούς. Όταν επισκέπτεστε μια σελίδα, το πρόγραμμα περιήγησης που χρησιμοποιείτε αποστέλλει τις information of the User Agent on the page server. This feature is used by web publishers to identify the browser name, version, and operating system.
The User Agent feature is also used by websites to serve a personalized or limited experience in some Web browsers.
In its proposal, Google recommends the abolition of "User Agent", as the feature is a privacy risk and is commonly used by fingerprinter scripts to track users.
So instead of providing inaccurate information, Net Applications decided to withdraw NetMarketShare in its current form.
Net Applications has promised that NetMarketShare will appear again at some point, but for now, it will not release new data and statistics data. The last to appear are the October 2020 statistics.