-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/22/2014 07:36 PM, Pranesh Prakash wrote: > A 2012/2013 study by Robinson + Yu (albeit done on a very small > sample) on Chinese Internet users showed that speed was amongst the > biggest complaints and was the second most important factor while > choosing a circumvention tool:
Something to consider is perception of speed based on usage of desktop web browser going through circumvention networks vs the experience of mobile users on circumvention networks. My premise is that desktop web browsing is the most difficult application for a complex-latency multi-hop circumvention network like Tor, while using service-specific native apps on a mobile device is the best user experience for Tor. In other words, a desktop web browser opens many socket connections per page visited, and forces the user to be aware of the request/response time delay, meaning it is a synchronous experience. The Twitter app on Android, on the other hand, mostly just opens one socket now and then to update the feed, and does so in the background, in an asynchronous manner. Even if we were talking about browsing through Orweb, if you access a mobile version of a site, say https://m.facebook.com, it will be quite a bit lighter than facebook.com, and thus load faster. I know what the users say, and we can only change their mind if we actually change their mind and provide them a solution that they consider usable. I just hope that the "Tor is slow" meme, along with other famous ones like "PGP is hard" and "No one cares about privacy", are continued to be challenged, tested and not accepted as inevitable. +n -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTCV5vAAoJEKgBGD5ps3qpMk4QAIGaq4hhDyplsSF8wwcfqv0r Fe1BEuPI1JL5u1wYCvmlCbAey5lDblUM9VoxU3gez1Nie64mrH6KOIV6pePAkGS7 EoPww0b+ZDH6bPX0EbxOYmwvZO2igbxBa0DZ4DPRvuT80G7WvdfQldPjXXXx+kgA BK63ISV0aQvZ8dwllYOeDMy/Kc376XYQ5LFDTrwnQerkECdxx0Cf8D/I6g9H+Dzh LvfPoFrdYu/XUq9nhXw0Ls21Ndp5ea4oA+QfFhby9INh2eeEO+XTWfQu91jeEoKo foBRkDVwwrJXVvpc76+v5P0HftpdaFbzDDDDT+s6TkZgDHY3hjCjF/bmmoroADu9 E0N0NC3d1SaZEMRJIHDhdACqQI4LXbneUj5h2pwnGO+EBvFcP62OTF1iGuCKQGWx I8gNfRaVGI62bg8k4Ai5+6DzrWjL+0YZrvHmzyB1aS8AaimFtbElTpMBFETjQe28 O5Q+FEha8P6rutd6oMwX/g8OnicDAvyU4vbOkjXFgazo79STwip1XzeVmjmuPAu1 K5Et28Kq3fsjk++v/6nKOw9Wjim/cC8UZF81VWol08GH5BLjRF5cPtt/r+JamWFe TAtp0NN/oKaY1FB5xqIg5tOOAxYZWZG7CGhEHU55jWJ8wk4+e4IC4N3cfL45ert8 By9ih96KScAEqnXqgZLv =qyMj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
