On Fri, Mar 17, 2017, at 03:42 PM, David Fifield wrote: > According to Tor Metrics, the number of bridge users (mostly meek) in > Brazil has settled down, after about 9 months of being (seemingly > abnormally) elevated. > https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.html?start=2016-06-01&end=2017-03-17&country=br
Interesting! > Do you have any thoughts as to what could have caused it? Isabela, after > speaking to some Brazilians, said that it didn't seem to be genuine > users, but rather some automated system, perhaps malware. That's strange. Why malware? It is only a few thousand users, which doesn't seem like that many considering we have so many Orbot installs in Brazil. I would love to know more about the reasoning here. >Vern Paxson > suggested that perhaps Orbot updates were being blocked (causing clients > to use a stale configuration? I admit I don't really understand this > possibility). It takes a long time for users to actually choose to upgrade on Android. It is not obvious, unfortunately, and most people don't have auto upgrade on. > The recent drop in meek users on March 3 is no doubt a result of the > deactivation of the former meek-azure CDN endpoint: > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-March/000981.html > What it suggests to me, is that most of the meek users in Brazil were > using meek-azure, and not meek-amazon. Agreed. Though, you would think Brazilians would prefer the Amazon... heh! +n -- Nathan of Guardian [email protected] _______________________________________________ List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To unsubscribe, email: [email protected]
