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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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It's amusing to me that you're getting crushed on here for blocking/ "defederating" known IPs that you don't want traffic from, but I would bet that these same people would champion your right to do the same if you were blocking a spammy mastadon or lemmy instance that you didn't like!

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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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…

There is no reason to allow Tor IPs on most sites sadly. The abuse it is used for far exceeds legitimate traffic

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

#103

China has the great firewall, the UK has Hadrian's firewall, I guess this is the Berlin firewall.

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

I've seen a lot of things blocked, e.g. sci-hub

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please you are whitewashing history. Hoyerswerda gruesst. This shit was happening already in the 90s right after reunification and in the context of OP - it’s not surprising at all, eastern germany had a very different take on denazificaiton.

"eastern germany had a very different take on denazificaiton." As opposed to the BRD, where for example the "Auswärtiges Amt" had more ex NSDAP party members after 1945 than before? There definitely was denazification in the east, but the totalitarian enclosed and literally walled of mindset did not help with creating an open mind towards the world. Add to that high unemployment and poverty after 1990 and you get the…

You will notice I did not say Western Germany was great at it. Different.

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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post #70
post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please you are whitewashing history. Hoyerswerda gruesst. This shit was happening already in the 90s right after reunification and in the context of OP - it’s not surprising at all, eastern germany had a very different take on denazificaiton.

Hoyerswerda was in 1991, please look at the election results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_German_federal_election No radical party was of any significance. If they were all Nazis, why didn't the NPD have 20%? You are the one who rewrites history.

Because at the time that SED follow up was still binding the Nazi vote.

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"eastern germany had a very different take on denazificaiton." As opposed to the BRD, where for example the "Auswärtiges Amt" had more ex NSDAP party members after 1945 than before? There definitely was denazification in the east, but the totalitarian enclosed and literally walled of mindset did not help with creating an open mind towards the world. Add to that high unemployment and poverty after 1990 and you get the…

You will notice I did not say Western Germany was great at it. Different.

I noticed, but in the context it seems to imply a worse take.

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

#109

China has the great firewall, the UK has Hadrian's firewall, I guess this is the Berlin firewall.

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

Ugh I have news for you

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

#110
Tor metrics don't really tell you much about the actual human users of the networks. They mostly tell you about current bot/etc usage. It's why inferred tor v3 datarates have been wildly inflated (10gbps) ever since support was turned on in the release binaries despite 99% of human people using tor v2 (at the time).
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