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It's about Freedom and Privacy.

Not many people know the price of freedom, but many have died in the name of preserving what freedoms they either had, yearned for or were being taken from them.

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/u/partytime

2 points

1 year ago

Indeed so, mate. Tor is one of the last bastions of freedom, as I've written before this. Nowhere else on the Internet is there the ability to choose freely what to view, where to visit, and who to chat with.

Thank you for sharing this, and reminding us all of the great gift Tor brings to so many. Cheers!

/u/HeadJanitor 📢 Moderator

1 points

1 year ago

Such true words you bring forth. Thank you as always, /u/partytime.

/u/footsteps

1 points

1 year ago

Indonesia too, eh?

/u/HeadJanitor 📢 Moderator

1 points

1 year ago

I'm not too up-to-date on Indonesia. But, it looks like there is censorship there as well. Some countries do not allow "peering" meaning they can't connect to the world-at-large.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Indonesia

/u/footsteps

1 points

1 year ago

You can't access reddit there, I can tell you that... and they try to collect everyone's IMEI at the airports, but you don't have to give it.

/u/HeadJanitor 📢 Moderator

1 points

1 year ago

Yeah, I just found out the other day.

/u/Hourglass P

2 points

1 year ago

I'm a proud owner of a TOR node! Let's all contribute to the freedom of the internet!
Long live the tor network!
Nice post btw :)

/u/HeadJanitor 📢 Moderator

2 points

1 year ago

/u/Hourglass, THAT is actually something to be proud of you. You are a contributor. Thank you for being of service to Dread.

I was recently thinking of setting up three relays, myself.

/u/Hourglass P

1 points

1 year ago

Thinking about buying a raspberry Pi and setting one there, the pico and zero versions are very cheap

/u/HeadJanitor 📢 Moderator

1 points

1 year ago

I've heard of people doing that. If it has the bandwidth, it's possible.

/u/BigBossChefOfArchetyp P

2 points

1 year ago

> • Tor has over 2 million daily active users.

If your data is correct, Germany+USA alone are already over 3 million daily users

/u/HeadJanitor 📢 Moderator

1 points

1 year ago

It's very difficult the way Tor gathers their analytics because even they have do it with the respect of anonymity.

The top-10 countries by estimated number of directly-connecting clients.

Based on 02/2024 the number is just below 8 million users!

01/01/2024 through 02/06/2024
https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.png?start=2024-01-01&end=2024-02-06&country=all&events=off

Country Mean daily users
Germany 2494603 (52.20 %)
United States 569936 (11.93 %)
Netherlands 191293 (4.00 %)
Ukraine 171810 (3.60 %)
Finland 138369 (2.90 %)
India 81224 (1.70 %)
Lithuania 70500 (1.48 %)
Indonesia 63825 (1.34 %)
France 60354 (1.26 %)
United Kingdom 52771 (1.10 %)

/u/twix

1 points

1 year ago*

(Help me add to it, please.)

History in a nutshell:From Military Roots to Global Activism:

1990s: Developed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory under the codename "The Onion Routing project" (TOR) for anonymous military communication.
2002: Public release of the alpha version under the name "Tor" by Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, and Paul Syverson.
2003: Transitioned to a non-profit organization, The Tor Project, funded by grants and donations.
2004-2005: Early adoption by activists and tech-savvy users seeking online privacy and censorship circumvention.
2007: Development of "bridges" to bypass firewalls and censorship in countries like China and Iran.
2008: Launch of the Tor Browser, making Tor more accessible to non-technical users.
2010s: Increased global usage due to events like the Arab Spring, highlighting Tor's role in facilitating free expression and information access.
202xs: Continued development and research focused on improving security, scalability, and user experience.

Here are some additional interesting facts about Tor:

Between April to July 2023, Tor received an average of 40,000 Windows downloads per day.
Approximately 6.7% of Tor network users connect daily to onion/hidden services for malicious activities.
Every day, approximately 100,000 people download the Tor browser from the Tor site.
Tor contains more than 145,000 circuits.
BitTorrent traffic accounts for a significant portion of the Tor traffic, more than 40%.
On the dark web, just 45% of sites host illegal activities and 55% of hidden sites are legal.
The number of crypto market vendors on Tor reached around 40,000 at one point.
The FBI was able to apprehend nearly 200 people for engaging in illegal activities involving minors with the help of the dark web.
The US government is one of Tor’s funders and creators.
On the dark web, bitcoin transactions were anticipated to reach $3.1 billion in 2023.
By the end of the 2nd quarter of 2023, Tor received an average of 60,000 Windows downloads per day.
As of the statistics from June to September 2023, daily Tor users by country indicate that Russia is the leader of Tor users, with nearly 47,973 users. Iran is in the second rank, with 41,067 daily users. The United States is on the third rank on the list, with roughly 25,434 users per day.

/u/HeadJanitor 📢 Moderator

1 points

1 year ago

Oh, /u/twix, if you have other legitimate 'decent' URLs to solid websites that would be great for the collection.

Thank you for the stats!

/u/Grazelda

1 points

1 year ago

Pretty good overview. I remember getting my first copy of Tor around 1997-1998 from a pirate BBS link put out by DARPA. Reputably they did it "just to see who would use it" as I remember.

/u/newbieforever2018 P

1 points

1 year ago

Solid gold /u/HeadJanitor

/u/HeadJanitor 📢 Moderator

1 points

1 year ago

Thank you, /u/newbieforever2018

We are blessed to have the freedoms, civil liberties and rights that we do. Despite the things we still complain about, we probably have it better than a lot of people.

/u/[deleted]

1 points

1 year ago

interesting.

/u/HeadJanitor 📢 Moderator

1 points

1 year ago

We've got our own world down here.

/u/t_time-traveler

1 points

1 year ago

Interesting, I would not have guessed Germany would be at the top of the "top 10 countries by relay use" list. For some reason I always assumed it would be the US. I guess maybe I thaought that because of the US's larger population.
Great post HJ

/u/HeadJanitor 📢 Moderator

1 points

1 year ago

Thank you, /u/t_time-traveler

I'm going to give serious thought on why Germany would be a great user. I have some opinions but want them as facts.

/u/t_time-traveler

1 points

1 year ago

Me too! What we do know is the Germany has many many relays as compared to some other EU nations, and even non-EU nations. So many entry/exit nodes come out of Germany for example. Come to think of it, in a day's browsing, if I keep track, I'm certain I would see {de} exit nodes at a greater per session occurence than non {de} exits. I'll have to do some formal testing and digging around to see if I can figure out why