#30636: Something funky is going in Iran: numbers of relay users flies off to 400K ------------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: cypherpunks | Owner: metrics-team Type: task | Status: new Priority: Medium | Milestone: Component: Metrics/Analysis | Version: Severity: Normal | Resolution: Keywords: ir | Actual Points: Parent ID: | Points: Reviewer: | Sponsor: ------------------------------+------------------------------
Comment (by arma): It now seems that 1/4 of the users in the Tor network are in Iran: https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay- table.html?start=2019-05-30&end=2019-06-03 I looked at some relay extrainfo descriptors, to see if this is a fluke or what, and it looks like many relays are seeing not just a huge number of v3 consensus fetches from Iran, but also a huge variety of IP addresses fetching these consensus documents. So my current thought is that these really are a bunch of different Tor clients running in different places in Iran. The shape of the growth makes me think it isn't many hundreds of thousands of people each one at a time deciding to install Tor Browser though. I wonder if Tor is now bundled in some software that many of them already had, and when it upgraded, they became Tor users? See for example how this happened in Ukraine two years ago, where the FreeU browser bundled a Tor client: #22369. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30636#comment:8> Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/> The Tor Project: anonymity online
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