On 08/27/2013 12:17 PM, mick wrote: > On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:39:58 +0000 > mirimir <[email protected]> allegedly wrote: > >> On 08/27/2013 07:08 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: >> >>> >>> 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 > >>> 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. > > Source?
It was a wild guess. Daily-connecting Tor users jumped from about 5e+5 to about 1.1e+6 over the past week or so. According to <http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/thepiratebay.se>, thepiratebay.se's global rank dropped from about 100 in 2013Q1 to about 3.7e+4 currently. But according to <http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/thepiratebay.sx>, thepiratebay.sx's global rank increased to about 100 during that period. ThePirateBay's global rank is therefore about 100. However, I haven't found how to convert that to unique daily visitors. Anyone know? -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
