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 > -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
