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Is there any actual data on the types of people that use Tor? I know by the very nature of it, that’s not a practical ask. I can’t help but think that despite
by donohoe 5y ago
Is there any actual data on the types of people that use Tor?
I know by the very nature of it, that’s not a practical ask.
I can’t help but think that despite Tor’s good intentions it’s just not being used for legitimate use.
Every story I’ve read really relies on anecdotal stories. If feel better having a clearer sense of the real userbase.
- 3np 5y agoMy impression is that a large portion of the traffic on Tor is malicious in some way, but originating from a very small portion of the users. It's a noisy minority. Just like the vast majority of sent e-mail is from criminal activity[0] and the comment section on news sites doesn't represent the readership fairly. An easy thing we can all do to help improve that is to use Tor for legitimate every-day use, even when you have nothing to hide. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spam#Statistics_and_estimates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spam#Statistics_and_esti...
- defeatcensors 5y agoDirectory of legitimate organizations running onion services: https://www.yellowonion.org https://www.yellowonion.org