[panny]

Why was this auto [flagged] by HN? I had to vouch this.

Edit: Aaaaand, [flagged] again in 26 minutes with no explanation.

Edit2: Since I'm "posting too fast" once again, I'll just have to reply to you here. "flagged by users" in four minutes? I don't think so. Besides if hacking statscounter was so easy that it happens monthly as you claim (despite that not being proven out on the chart), it seems like a relevant discussion for a site named "Hacker News."

[jsnell]

[flagged] means flagged by users; if it was done by the system, it'd be [dead].

I can't speak for others, but the reason I flagged it is that the number is untrustworthy and absurd. This is not an isolated case, Statcounter has these ridiculous errors on a monthly basis on one stat or another, before they silently fix whatever was wrong and the numbers swing wildly the other way. A discussion of a Statcounter spike is as fruitful as a discussion about the output of an RNG.

[zenethian]

I can’t even open it because the domain is blocked in my dns as being an analytics collection system.

[27183]

broken link maybe?

[gilrain]

Because it’s BS. Firefox usage telemetry is public. There is no such increase.