(or it's just a botnet, obviously.)
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Collin Anderson <[email protected] > wrote: > Firstly congratulations Tor; secondly this seems pretty solvable with math > and what not. I downloaded the direct connecting users csv and created a > spreadsheet between the start of the month and the end. It seems that it > was the confluence of many states increasing their censorship of the > Internet, especially instances like Vietnam and Facebook. Here is the raw > data: > > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Amq69Ncu9Fp_dDlFYWhDZlNCTkdfWGhFWGlCOWFFNWc&usp=sharing > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:03 PM, lee colleton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've started the Pirate Browser and it does start Tor through Vidalia. The >> browser component doesn't make an effort to anonymize the user, as I >> understand it. >> On Aug 27, 2013 6:56 PM, "mirimir" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > On 08/28/2013 12:35 AM, Nathan Suchy wrote: >> > >> > > The Pirate Browser does not use Tor. Anyone who did any reading would >> > > realize this. I feel that the more usage of Tor the better. The Pirate >> > > Browser needs to have some warning on extraction... >> > >> > It doesn't use Tor at all? For anything? >> > >> > Their FAQ now says: "No, it's not inteneded [sic] to be a TOR Browser, >> > while it uses the Tor network, which is designed for anonymous surfing, >> > this browser is ONLY intended to circumvent censorship." >> > >> > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:53 PM, mirimir <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > >> > >> On 08/27/2013 10:40 PM, mirimir wrote: >> > >> >> > >>> On 08/27/2013 04:26 PM, grarpamp wrote: >> > >>> >> > >>>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Missouri Anglers >> > >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >>>>> PirateBay is pushing the Pirate browser on their website. >> > >>>>> People are not searching for it. They are discovering it while >> > >> downloading torrents. >> > >>>> >> > >>>> Oh, seems there's a bolded link on the bottom of piratebay.sx ... >> > >>>> now that might actually do it. It went up on Aug 9/10 I think. >> > >>>> >> > >>>> Try asking piratebrowser.com for usage stats. 500k? >> > >>> >> > >>> In Alexa's top sites list, their global rank is currently 73. It was >> > >>> about 90 yesterday. >> > >>> >> > >>> By comparison: >> > >>> >> > >>> wordpress.org - 66 >> > >>> flickr.com - 67 >> > >>> adobe.com - 68 >> > >>> vube.com - 72 >> > >>> thepiratebay.sx - 73 >> > >>> blogspot.in - 75 >> > >>> godaddy.com - 77 >> > >>> huffingtonpost.com - 79 >> > >>> about.com - 82 >> > >>> >> > >>> Is that consistent with 500k? >> > >> >> > >> That was stupid of me. >> > >> >> > >> In Alexa's top sites list, it's thepiratebay.sx that currently has a >> > >> global rank of 73. Alexa shows piratebrowser.com at about 35,000. >> > >> >> > >> -- >> > >> tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] >> > >> To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to >> > >> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk >> > >> >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > -- >> > tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] >> > To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to >> > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk >> > >> -- >> tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] >> To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to >> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk >> > > > > -- > *Collin David Anderson* > averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C. > -- *Collin David Anderson* averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C. -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
