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by waste_monk 412 days ago
>0.38% of what?

Machines visiting sites with statcounter tracking widgets (and presumably not running with scripts/cookies disabled etc. ).

That works out to be ~5ish million internet connected XP machines, apparently[1].

>For sites like Google, it's still too large to ignore.

They do this sort of thing all the time [2]. IIRC Reader still had several million users when it got the axe.

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2091600/youre-not-real...

[2] https://killedbygoogle.com/