Hi Ludo, As you can verify by running our script (before & after doing a search) from
https://gnunet.org/gnsdatacollect it is indeed the case that following a search result like this would be counted as following a link (and thus not be in the 8%). We cannot tell from the data what percentage of followed links were from search engines. However, I do not see this as a problem. GNS will work fine with search engines: once you've gotten "search.gnu" in your zone, you will resolve links from the search engine for say a search for "ludu" using "ludo.search.gnu", which would go to Ludo's zone (where "Ludo's zone" is defined by the search engine, which is fine --- you will get the Ludo corresponding to the search result you clicked on). Now, we might not like people exposing their browsing habits like this from a privacy perspective, but that's another story. And obviously the 8% is given on a limited sample for today's behavior; how people may evolve to behave tomorrow is another story. I mean, sample the percentage of encrypted e-mails you got two months ago vs. today... Sometimes these values change, and if you need to import a public key into a zone, I can imagine that users may change their surfing behavior in a way that reduces the 8% further. Happy hacking! Christian On 09/09/2013 07:16 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello, > > Congratulations on the nice FPS paper! > > Section 4.5 states: > > Based on a limited and most likely biased survey where users volun- > teered the output of a simple shell script that inspected their browsers > history database, we determined that given current Internet behavior, > approximately 8% of domain names would require introduction via some > out-of-band exchange. > > I think many users would just type (say) “gnunet” in the address/search > bar of their browser (rather than “http://gnunet.org”), which leads them > to a Google search result page. > > In that case, ‘gnunet.org’ is counted as not needing an out-of-band > introduction, I suppose. However, that does not capture the fact that > Google is an undesirable way to get introduced to a web site from a > censorship-resistance viewpoint. > > Does your study account for such uses somehow? What impact would it > have on the 8% figures? > > Thanks, > Ludo’. > > _______________________________________________ > GNUnet-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnunet-developers > _______________________________________________ GNUnet-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnunet-developers
