about which stats are you talking Aaron?
On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 5:45 PM, Aaron Johnson <aaron.m.john...@nrl.navy.mil> wrote: > > These statistics not just tell about the user's country but also keep a > > track of unique IP addresses connecting from each country. This is > > needed so as to present more realistic stats. If we increment counter on > > any IP address instead of unique IP address then the statistics would > > also reflect user(s) connecting again and again. If we don't count > > Unique IPs, we would have stats about per country usage rather than per > > country users. We could do much better and implement a way(as described > > by the OP of thread) that counts unique IPs at the same time preserves > > privacy. > > It is true that this would count connections rather than unique IPs. > However, Tor already infers the number of users by counting directory > downloads and then adjusting that number based on how many each user is > expected to make. In addition, each user doesn’t necessarily correspond to > a different IP because of NAT, and so counting connections may actually be > more accurate. > > Best, > Aaron > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > tor-dev@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev >
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