app installs are inflated by bots
Bug #1576585 reported by
Chad Miller
This bug affects 1 person
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| Developer registration portal |
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Bug Description
My pie chart of countries is heavily skewed toward the UK because there's a bot there that downloads every snap package every day. Those are not real installs, and shouldn't count toward any install statistics.
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| Chad Miller (cmiller) wrote | #1 |
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| Chad Miller (cmiller) wrote | #2 |
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I think every user agent that doesn't match our "snap" tool's should be ignored. It's false to equate web traffic to installation.
One out-of-band download should not count as one install, because it could be used any number of times, from zero to billions. Just drop it.