Except that the download numbers don't correspond at all with the population numbers.

ITT: people giving wrong answers to a post linked to a blog that answers the question 'What is PID 0?'

Thumbnail alone is enough for me.

You must be real paranoid if you think Canonical made bot accounts to promote snaps on Lemmy.

Ha exactly my thought!

I also noticed when the drag-and-drop occurred I could no longer hover over the folders in my bookmarkbar. Hadn't yet found the willingness to find out what was going on, but nice to hear it's solved.

Israel's outline is sketchy to say the least...

That'd be something akin to lab-grown meat, and imho actually a vast improvement.

Hence the big if

No the sample size is ~5000, which is pretty OK if representative of the population (big if though)

I think this is the way to go if it doesn't frustrate further development too much. Kinda risky to pull the old app out of stores and see the blissfully unaware part of your userbase leave for a competitor.

"If it's a legitimate interest, the browser has ways to try to shut that whole thing down"

And then accidentally copy/pasting the failed attempt code snippets of the OP describing the situation.