Does anyone understand the mass flagging and downvotes going on in this comment section? I'm very confused as I've never seen anything like it.
Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
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#112Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
#113Does anyone understand the mass flagging and downvotes going on in this comment section? I'm very confused as I've never seen anything like it.
Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
#114From 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…
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#115I read that Tor needs a certain percentage of non-malicious nodes to function, though I am not sure if that is applicable clients.
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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!
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I doubt it's either of those - it would be extremely unethical and illegal for academics to do, and governments don't need to take this approach because they have a bunch of systemic attacks that are less obvious. Perhaps someone with a botnet looking to sell unmasking, which has been popping up as a service recently. Or trying to use it against a specific DWM or vendor.
Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
#118Does anyone understand the mass flagging and downvotes going on in this comment section? I'm very confused as I've never seen anything like it.
It's quite annoying, possibly NAFO or similar.
Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would say this is the best solution. I live in another EU country where ISPs also block it via DNS.
No excuse for that censorship honestly.