Hi,

> On 17 Mar 2019, at 08:04, Ryan Duff <r...@nduff.com> wrote:
> 
>> The way we intended to do this was to send our FF "ground-truth"
>> collection through Tor, and specifically through the same exit node as
>> TTB uses. This way we can isolate the variable to the differences in the
>> browsers, rather than any network or other concerns. In addition, we are
>> working on developing a method for determining if content is dynamically
>> generated (and therefore different every time), or broken.
> 
> Won't this severely taint your "ground-truth" though? If you're ultimately 
> using the exit-node for both, then you'll really only end up measuring what 
> is friendly to the Tor Browser itself instead of Tor overall. Is that the 
> goal?
> 
> If not, with direct access to an exit node, you could run the test direct 
> from that node (not using Tor) for the "ground truth" and then use it as the 
> exit node of choice for the Tor Browser to have a solid comparison between 
> Tor vs Not-Tor.

Most sites block by IP (or IP range), so a direct connection using the
exit node's IP should give you very similar results to a Tor circuit
using the exit node's IP.

T

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