Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right
by hyperbovine on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @02:02PM
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I assume they meant uniques. I agree, it's a ridiculous stat and probably exaggerated ... OTOH, porn traffic numbers from the "official sources" are way underreported for obvious reasons. Is it believable that half the people on Earth visit one of these sites every month? Probably not. Is it possible they are pulling Google-scale traffic? Yes quite likely IMO.
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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right
by zuminator on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @10:20PM
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It stretches credulity that they could get anything near 4.5 billion unique visitors when their most popular site only gets 0.4 billion [0]. But even if that were the case, 4.5 billion is still less than Google and Facebook combined. (Of course it's not valid to stack Google and Facebook's visitors as disjointly unique, but the same is true of Pornhub and its properties.)
Regardless, you're totally right that their numbers are relatively impressive and indeed "Google-scale" if we interpret that as within an order of magnitude. If the metric they used was "unique visitors per employee," then even with official source numbers they would be around 10x as successful as Google!!
[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1201889/most-visited-web...