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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
Have something changed in how German police goes after drug dealers? It's the most important use case for Tor anyway.
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As a Danish person who has been to Eastern Germany (outside Berlin) I'm really not surprised by the rise of the AfD. It's common to see people on social media praise Germans for de-Nazification and criticize the Japanese for not confronting their past in the same way. Those people have clearly not interacted with Eastern Germans. In Eastern Germany the underlying neuroticism, persecution complex, and willingness to b…
I don't know why this is getting down voted. Poster didn't say it's rampant, just that "it is very much alive." I'm German, I live in Berlin, I regularly spend time in eastern Germany, outside Berlin. I can sadly confirm this.
From 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…
Note that the growth is not just in Germany. Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland also show jumps (however in absolute terms they are still much smaller). I would not rule out it's people or bots connecting from third country/countries through VPNs based in Europe... for whatever reason.
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Hugely depends on the country. Don't assume the law you know, to apply here
Can you give just one example of a country with a law making it illegal for academics conducting research to attempt to demask tor users?
From 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…
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.
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What are you on about? The riots in France are on pretty much every news site in Germany.
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If they even think you are spamming, you get banned. Pretty much closed to individuals (according to Reddit, if they don’t even like the way your ID looks, you’re banned) while businesses get more leeway to do things.
I didn’t realize they’re that strict. I have an individual account with them I occasionally use and didn’t encounter any issues with ID (I can’t even recall being ID’d tbh). That being said, I am located in Germany and have a German billing address, so maybe international customers have more issues?
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I didn’t realize they’re that strict. I have an individual account with them I occasionally use and didn’t encounter any issues with ID (I can’t even recall being ID’d tbh). That being said, I am located in Germany and have a German billing address, so maybe international customers have more issues?
No one I know has had issues like that. They also don’t spam, but Hetzner is generally considered in ny circles to be a pretty newbie-friendly service especially for people looking to use basic baremetal machines. Maybe we’ve just gotten lucky, or maybe we all hail from the right geographies.