This is useful information. Is this observation or confirmed?
Both, it has been said several times in the forums and if you have doubts you can try, take a free game of yours.
Open an incognito window, try downloading the game twice and cancel the download before it finishes and check the itch metrics again.
They show 2 downloads, but the game was never really downloaded.
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