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20M MacKeeper users seems like an extraordinary number.

Let's say there is an installed base of 2 billion personal computers, let's say 10% of those are Macs, that's 200 million, 10% of those would have to have MacKeeper installed to hit 20m users.

not to mention over 700k paid subscribers ..

I was wondering from where this number is coming from...

Their compani is based in Ukraine so you would probably need russian language to dig a bit in tho publicly available documents, but i found that number somewhere on twitter, and am sure its correct. Another proof how much dumb people are living on this wonderful planet..

I honestly thought it was an out of mind number, but thinking about how aggressive is their advertising campaign, sometimes almost misleading and the average knowledge of a user, well, I am not sure is out of mind anymore...

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