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Sounds interesting, do you have a link or something for me?
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Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
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Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
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The traffic my servers receive from China, India, South America, Africa, and Eastern Europe, and the UK is also almost exclusively boys and exploit scanners.
You can block whatever IP addresses you like but the bot to user ratio of any given IP address is absolutely terrible. Tor concentrates a lot of traffic into a few exit nodes but by this logic most small countries should be blocked from most websites.
Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
#83Clicking around and looking at the chart for random other countries shows a spike for Sweden too, whereas Finland has a different but interesting pattern all of its own.
Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
#84There is no way these are organic users. Could it be, that some VPN is using Germany as an entrypoint?
Could be that someone is using a Cloud Provider in Germany, for example Hetzner
Doubt it. Hetzners smallest machine is something like $4/month, additional IPv4 addresses come with extra cost. They have quite tight service quotas, and this 2M additional IPs would be almost their entire IPv4 pool.
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#86From an average of significantly below 500k to almost 2.5M users. This drives up the global number of connecting users from approx. 3M to almost 5M. Hard to imagine that so many people in Germany suddenly switched to TOR, especially since there has not been any significant event lately that may have triggered such a decision (afaik)? My personal experience with TOR (as an administrator of various websites and service…
do you believe these numbers?
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
VPN seems like it would be vastly preferable for performance and reliability.
Yeah, but few VPNs are free, and the ones that are tend to be slow and unreliable due to overloading.
This comprises 40% of all global Tor users. I'm not sure it's reasonable to assume they all wouldn't have the budget for Mullvad.
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Wow, that's terrible, for reasons already explained to you below. Please reconsider.
No the IP blocks are very effective. I don't believe that I have any obligation whatsoever to allow criminal groups on the other side of the world to spam burp suite scans over Tor against my websites nonstop.
Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
#89From an average of significantly below 500k to almost 2.5M users. This drives up the global number of connecting users from approx. 3M to almost 5M. Hard to imagine that so many people in Germany suddenly switched to TOR, especially since there has not been any significant event lately that may have triggered such a decision (afaik)? My personal experience with TOR (as an administrator of various websites and service…
do you believe these numbers?
It would be much helpful if you could provide one or two reasons why the number could be wrong.... or maybe make some comments on the methodology, etc..
Just question about the accuracy without any context or reasons are not contributing to the argument.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone from the UK I’ve never seen anything blocked on my home Internet (except actual scam sites but you can turn that off, and yes that’s from my ISP and not the browser) My mobile data does incorrectly flag some things as 18+ though
Are you required to provide doxxing personal information proving your age on these sites or can you browse anonymously?
Only on my mobile data. They’re not actually 18+ sites though, for example someone’s blog that was posted here is blocked and it seems the Tor site is too
But I think that’s a Vodaphone thing rather than a UK thing