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OctoPrint's anonymous usage stats were manipulated
OctoPrint's anonymous usage stats were manipulated, here's what we know
The actual reason was that a small number of clients were busy sending fake tracking events, simulating thousands of unique instances (shown here and below are those from the log of June 25th): I have since cleaned up the data, soft-blocked the offending bad clients and am in the process of putting further mitigation strategies and alerting in place so that future manipulations like that will be more easily detected. And if my long term data is to be trusted, this has probably been going on, with ever so slight increases in the number of faked requests per day, since the fall of 2022.
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