On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 03:44, Ted Smith <te...@riseup.net> wrote: > According to the paper *you linked*, they're outnumbering Chinese users.
You forgot to add “relative to population size”. I don't think that such direct comparison makes sense, with Chinese users' motivation being mainly circumventing the GFC. Russia has no Internet censorship, so you can compare the data at the time when the paper was written and now with similar countries. Then: Russia 146 France 150 UK 170 US 864 (I omit Germany because it such an outlier) Now (https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html, approximate): Russia 15000 France 26000 UK 10000 US 62000 So I wouldn't say that Russia's proportion has a tendency to increase, discarding growth of Tor network per se, although I suspect that proportion of Internet users in Russia increased much more in recent years than in Western countries above. Most people don't change their Internet usage patterns due to traffic interception laws, and Internet criminals in Russia (e.g., carders) prefer double-VPN to Tor, from what I heard. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk