On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 01:19:22PM -0900, Jesse V wrote: > On 01/11/2016 12:47 PM, David Fifield wrote: > > December 2015 $561.29 + $603.27 + $172.60 = $1337.16 > > ... > > The number of users increased by about 1,000 in December 2015. > > Thanks for the report, David. > > There are now ~1800 users on meek-google sharing 8 Mbits. Of course, > it's also possible that many are lurking. I wonder if we should think of > a way to load-balance the CDNs a bit more, assuming Azure is accessible > from China. Perhaps we could re-order or at least clarify the bridge > options in the Tor Browser. Since it's logistically challenging to get > bridges from inside a censored country, it's possible that users try the > various bridge options using the built-in bridges (which are likely > blocked) before discovering that meek works, so they use that. I wonder > how we could encourage users to use other transports that are likely > faster, then use meek as a last resort.
Azure is accessible in China but it's even more severely rate limited because it's more expensive than Google. We still have support from Google, so that $561.29 actually costs about $61.29. I think you're right that people are choosing meek because it works without any setup. We have a kind of long-term goal to do a domain-fronted interface to BridgeDB, so that people could get obfs4 bridges automatically and directly within Tor Launcher. https://bugs.torproject.org/16550 _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
