Hello,
I am a graduate student at Oregon State University doing research on digital privacy and security. My advisor is Dr. Glencora Borradaile. We are trying to use tor metrics data in order to understand the reason why people are connecting to tor and if it is because of some external motivation (the topic of our research) or because they are regular users. Looking at the user statistics available in tor metrics website, we had a few questions we wanted to clarify.
1. How frequently tor browsers send out update pings? Is there a fixed frequency or do they vary over time? 2. Are update pings sent every time a user opens their browser or only when new updates are pushed to the tor browser?
Thank you for your time.
Regards
Nafisa Nowshin Graduate Assistant School of EECS, Oregon State University