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Re: [tor-bugs] #23052 [Applications/Tor Browser]: I get Ukrainian IPs most of the time
#23052: I get Ukrainian IPs most of the time
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Reporter: cypherpunks | Owner: tbb-team
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: Medium | Milestone:
Component: Applications/Tor Browser | Version:
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by dcf):
This phenomenon is possibly Google's geolocation being confused by the
many Ukrainians that started using Tor recently. The IP addresses are not
actually in Ukraine. Please see:
[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2017-June/043269.html Is
the recent growth in Ukrainian users confusing google's geoip?]
> Motivated by a blog post comment:
> https://blog.torproject.org/comment/269237#comment-269237
>
> It looks like a growing number of connections from Tor exits are being
> treated by Google as being Ukrainian.
>
> Anecdotally, I've experienced it too -- Google news keeps wanting to
> give me Ukrainian news.
>
> For those who haven't been paying attention, we got a jump in some
> hundreds of thousands of .ua users recently:
> https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-
country.html?start=2017-05-01&end=2017-06-18&country=ua&events=off
> and it looks like they're really users:
> https://bugs.torproject.org/22369
>
> Here's my speculation:
>
> You know how Google's proprietary geoip system is typically better
> than Maxmind's, because they data mine the heck out of their traffic,
> for example by deciding that the google maps address you ask about most
> is probably your home address?
>
> I wonder if a lot of ordinary people doing ordinary things via Tor,
> and acting like people in the Ukraine, has tipped Google's sekrit-sauce
> machine learning decision trees into labeling those IP addresses as
> being in .ua.
There are some other ideas later in the thread.
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