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Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
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Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
#12Germany is blocking a lot of websites ( i.e. rt.com)
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#13Could these be attempts at data mining for unmasking Tor users?
Seems most likely, either by academics or government.
Not really the most subtle way about it though and likely to face some response.
I'd assume both have the capability to run a fairly accurate simulated network without anyone noticing so it's a bit strange.
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#14Germany is blocking a lot of websites ( i.e. rt.com)
Russian-run sites like RT are banned through the whole EU. However, such spikes cannot be seen in other EU countries such as France.
Might also depend on how it’s enforced. The blocks in Austria basically do not exist because they are only done by carrier DNS servers. Use 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 and you would not know.
Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
#15Germany is blocking a lot of websites ( i.e. rt.com)
Russian-run sites like RT are banned through the whole EU. However, such spikes cannot be seen in other EU countries such as France.
I just opened rt.com on my home connection with no tor or VPN and everything worked. I'm physically in the Czech Republic if that matters.
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#16Germany is blocking a lot of websites ( i.e. rt.com)
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Not really. I preferred the approach of pre-Musk twitter that clearly labeled it as Russian state media. Also banning it had little effect. The war propaganda coming out of Russia was hilariously incompetent.
The real insidious anti-Ukrainian propaganda is coming from pro-Russian Westerners, pre-dominantly the American populist right.
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I use tor for exploring topics that I don't want to tie to my regular profile (ranging from professional software development, through health care issues, but also hobbies, fiction and nsfw content). Having these browsing in a separate profile and also IP address makes it much more relaxed to look for interesting stuff on the internet. (I am not really fond of advertisement that tries to sell me whatever I've visited in the past month, on unrelated pages.)
It saddens me that the default response is ban, increasingly so for services that need account, but even just reading a webpage can become tedious or impossible :(
Please, do not ruin this option, because even though you may not use it today, you may need it in the future.
Note: I also use tor for low volume crawling. When high volume is needed, it is more favorable to subscribe for domestic VPN proxies, so you may be blocking tor, but you won't block those ranges, and the robots will get their content anyway.
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#19Germany is blocking a lot of websites ( i.e. rt.com)
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And NATO or ukrainian propaganda?
Because that is also a thing, even though not as blatant.
The problem with banning information, is that it is easy to abuse this and it creates a martyr effect. I rather would like people be able to judge information by themself and not decide for them.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Russian-run sites like RT are banned through the whole EU. However, such spikes cannot be seen in other EU countries such as France.
Might also depend on how it’s enforced. The blocks in Austria basically do not exist because they are only done by carrier DNS servers. Use 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 and you would not know.
The vast majority of people use their ISP’s DNS server, though.