You don't need a significant portion to spoof for the metric to be useless.
Let's say you need a package, you go look at exxpress. It has 30M downloads, therefore it's probably the popular package you wanted. So you're good to go with npm install exxpress right?
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You don't need a significant portion to spoof for the metric to be useless.
Let's say you need a package, you go look at exxpress. It has 30M downloads, therefore it's probably the popular package you wanted. So you're good to go with
npm install exxpressright?