NetMarketShare announced on Sunday plans to shut down its public browser share reporting tool, which has been available for more than 14 years.
Net Applications, the owners of NetMarketShare, is widely known for being a provider of usage share statistics for web browsers and operating systems. According to Net Applications, the data provided by NetMarketShare is a primary source in "tens of thousands of articles and publication".
The NetMarketShare website is still active, but starting November 1, Net Application
says that it is "retiring NetMarketShare in its current form" and no new monthly stats will be released going forward.
NetMarketShare is sunsetting the service because of a recent change proposed by Google. On its website, the company stated that Google's proposed "User Agent Client Hints" will break NetMarketShare's device detection technology and it will cause inaccuracies for a long period of time.........................................
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