Re: [tor-talk] Many more Tor users in the past week?

[lee colleton <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've started the Pirate Browser and it does start Tor through Vidalia. The
browser component doesn't make an effort to anonymize the user, as I
understand it.
On Aug 27, 2013 6:56 PM, "mirimir" <mirimir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 08/28/2013 12:35 AM, Nathan Suchy wrote:
>
> > The Pirate Browser does not use Tor. Anyone who did any reading would
> > realize this. I feel that the more usage of Tor the better. The Pirate
> > Browser needs to have some warning on extraction...
>
> It doesn't use Tor at all? For anything?
>
> Their FAQ now says: "No, it's not inteneded [sic] to be a TOR Browser,
> while it uses the Tor network, which is designed for anonymous surfing,
> this browser is ONLY intended to circumvent censorship."
>
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:53 PM, mirimir <mirimir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> On 08/27/2013 10:40 PM, mirimir wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 08/27/2013 04:26 PM, grarpamp wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Missouri Anglers
> >>>> <missouri.anglers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>> PirateBay is pushing the Pirate browser on their website.
> >>>>> People are not searching for it. They are discovering it while
> >> downloading torrents.
> >>>>
> >>>> Oh, seems there's a bolded link on the bottom of piratebay.sx ...
> >>>> now that might actually do it. It went up on Aug 9/10 I think.
> >>>>
> >>>> Try asking piratebrowser.com for usage stats. 500k?
> >>>
> >>> In Alexa's top sites list, their global rank is currently 73. It was
> >>> about 90 yesterday.
> >>>
> >>> By comparison:
> >>>
> >>> wordpress.org  -  66
> >>> flickr.com  -  67
> >>> adobe.com  -  68
> >>> vube.com  -  72
> >>> thepiratebay.sx  -  73
> >>> blogspot.in  -  75
> >>> godaddy.com  -  77
> >>> huffingtonpost.com  -  79
> >>> about.com  -  82
> >>>
> >>> Is that consistent with 500k?
> >>
> >> That was stupid of me.
> >>
> >> In Alexa's top sites list, it's thepiratebay.sx that currently has a
> >> global rank of 73. Alexa shows piratebrowser.com at about 35,000.
> >>
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