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I'm surprised Tor usage hasn't skyrocketed.

• kodablah 8y ago
  I'd say the lack of Tor-exclusive easy-to-use applications. That Tor underpins an application should be transparent. If the Tor browser is the same on the outside as a web browser but slower, the anonymity alone isn't a good enough reason for many to use it. Rather, a (non-browser?) communication platform needs to compete on features and just happen to use Tor.
• octosphere 8y ago
  Well we do know that Tor usage shot up after Snowden's revelations https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/5/186025-privacy-behaviors-after-snowden/fulltext https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/5/186025-privacy-behavio... https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/tor-usage-doubles-snowden-nsa-prism/ https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/tor-usage-doubles-snowden-ns...
  • chris_mc 8y ago
    Darknet markets had a huge boom around that time, too, which could also correlate. I think it's more likely the cause than Snowden, as I think more people care about drugs than privacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_market#Silk_Road_and_early_markets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_market#Silk_Road_and_e... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2013-01-01%202013-12-31&geo=US&q=%2Fg%2F11b6hxvzw9 https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2013-01-01%202...
• malvosenior 8y ago
  Many sites (including this one) shadowban accounts created via Tor. So basically, you can't use Tor for social media.
  • ommunist 8y ago
    you can’t use Tor for the Internet banking either