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

[lee colleton <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There has not been a sustained increase in search traffic for the Pirate
Browser on Google. Tor and "Tor browser" haven't shown a spike in search,
either. Could it be from users in Syria? Also note that the Google Play
Store has been unblocked in Iran, allowing distribution of Orbot/Orweb in
that country to phones with the Play Store app installed (partial
bootstrapping problem).

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Tor%2C%20TOR%20browser%2C%20piratebrowser%2C%20&date=today%203-m&cmpt=q
On Aug 27, 2013 12:41 AM, "mirimir" <mirimir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 08/27/2013 07:08 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Check out
> > https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html
> > (for posterity, the longer-term link will be
> >
> https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users&start=2013-05-29&end=2013-08-27&country=all&events=off#direct-users)
> >
> > The number of Tor clients running appears to have doubled since August
> 19:
> >
> https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users&start=2013-08-12&end=2013-08-27&country=all&events=off#direct-users
> >
> > And it's not just a fluke in the metrics data -- it appears that
> > there really are twice as many Tor clients running as before:
> > https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html#dirbytes
> >
> > There's a slight increase (worsening) in the performance measurements:
> > https://metrics.torproject.org/performance.html
> > but it's hard to say if that's a real difference. So while there are a
> > bunch of new Tor clients running, it would seem they're not doing much.
> >
> > Anybody know details? It's easy to speculate (Pirate Browser publicity
> > gone overboard? People finally reading about the NSA thing? Botnet?),
> > but some good solid facts would sure be useful.
>
> I suspect PirateBrowser, given that PirateBay users probably outnumber
> privacy lovers by 2-3 orders of magnitude.
>
> If that's the case, PirateBrowser is truly doing evil.
>
> > --Roger
> >
>
>
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