[tor-talk] Many more Tor users in the past week?

[Missouri Anglers]

PirateBay is pushing the Pirate browser on their website.
People are not searching for it. They are discovering it while downloading torrents.

On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:13:02 -0700
lee colleton <lee at colleton.net> wrote:

> There has not been a sustained increase in search traffic for the Pirate
> Browser on Google. Tor and "Tor browser" haven't shown a spike in search,
> either. Could it be from users in Syria? Also note that the Google Play
> Store has been unblocked in Iran, allowing distribution of Orbot/Orweb in
> that country to phones with the Play Store app installed (partial
> bootstrapping problem).
> 
> http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Tor%2C%20TOR%20browser%2C%20piratebrowser%2C%20&date=today%203-m&cmpt=q
> On Aug 27, 2013 12:41 AM, "mirimir" <mirimir at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> > >
> >
> >
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