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[flagged] means flagged by users; if it was done by the system, it'd be [dead].

I can't speak for others, but the reason I flagged it is that the number is untrustworthy and absurd. This is not an isolated case, Statcounter has these ridiculous errors on a monthly basis on one stat or another, before they silently fix whatever was wrong and the numbers swing wildly the other way. A discussion of a Statcounter spike is as fruitful as a discussion about the output of an RNG.

I can’t even open it because the domain is blocked in my dns as being an analytics collection system.

broken link maybe?

Because it’s BS. Firefox usage telemetry is public. There is no such increase.