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

[Collin Anderson <collin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(or it's just a botnet, obviously.)


On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Collin Anderson <collin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Firstly congratulations Tor; secondly this seems pretty solvable with math
> and what not. I downloaded the direct connecting users csv and created a
> spreadsheet between the start of the month and the end. It seems that it
> was the confluence of many states increasing their censorship of the
> Internet, especially instances like Vietnam and Facebook. Here is the raw
> data:
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Amq69Ncu9Fp_dDlFYWhDZlNCTkdfWGhFWGlCOWFFNWc&usp=sharing
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:03 PM, lee colleton <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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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