I wonder what the data covers. Does it show only genuine browser traffic or also apps? Do apps that periodically phone home for updates, like mail apps, count towards the 'attention'? Is that why gmail is so massive?
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Now do it based on the company that owns the sites
Yahoo mail? Seriously?
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AOL!?
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https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-desktop-browsing-trends-gmail.html
Which links to: https://www.ssrn.com/abstract=6991638
Desktop browsing, u.s. residents.
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The whole fediverse is somewhere down in the fog. Maybe someday it will BE the fog.
Twitter gets less attention than Yahoo Mail ?
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Are they not counting Tik Tok and instagram?
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what cracks me up is I will often mention the importance of email and I get flak for it like being old and going away and that is not where people do stuff today and its going away or such. Looks to me like its the largest general thing up there. 25% of the named blocks and I would not be surprised if its a higher percentage of the unnamed ones.
more people use chatgpt than reddit? The famously massive, addictive website? Are you kidding me? I wonder, as a person that's never used AI beyond sometimes perusing the "AI answers" that results from a google search, am I a unicorn? How many other people have never used it?
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Didn't expect gmail to be so high.
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Where is wikipedia ๐ญ
What evil creepy browser extensions and cookies did they have to trick unsuspecting users into installing in order to collect this data?
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sad ass graph
is computationally prohibitive
Imagemagick would do that in a snap.
Big yikes
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