Re: [tor-talk] Is the recent growth in Ukrainian users confusing google's geoip?

2017-06-24 Thread grarpamp
> 2. Go to ipv4.google.com > 3. search, captcha that will show up should be just text, and easier. > This would've been easier if there was a NoScript blacklist where JS > is always disabled, instead of constantly switching between security Yes javascript.enable=false seems nicer (with "text

Re: [tor-talk] Is the recent growth in Ukrainian users confusing google's geoip?

2017-06-24 Thread Lolint
> Looks like all connections from Tor exits by innocent Tor users to Google"s search service are being treated by Google as being lepers and are constantly force fed captchas so Google can eat them as fois gras. Work-around that I found to be somewhat acceptable: 1. Set high security setting, 2.

Re: [tor-talk] Is the recent growth in Ukrainian users confusing google's geoip?

2017-06-24 Thread Lara
James Bunnell: > grarpamp: > >> Fuck Google. >> > > yes, agreed. > Smart. Open source smart. Beats giving a comparable service. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Is the recent growth in Ukrainian users confusing google's geoip?

2017-06-24 Thread James Bunnell
grarpamp: > Fuck Google. > yes, agreed. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Is the recent growth in Ukrainian users confusing google's geoip?

2017-06-24 Thread grarpamp
On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 1:39 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > > It looks like a growing number of connections from Tor exits are being > treated by Google as being Ukrainian. Looks like all connections from Tor exits by innocent Tor users to Google's search service are being treated

Re: [tor-talk] Is the recent growth in Ukrainian users confusing google's geoip?

2017-06-20 Thread Alec Muffett
On 20 Jun 2017 1:24 pm, "Paul Syverson" wrote: On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 10:22:19AM -0400, krishna e bera wrote: > On 18/06/17 05:50 AM, Alec Muffett wrote: > >In other news, the FB Onion, for some time after it launched, geolocated to > >London. I can't imagine why. >

Re: [tor-talk] Is the recent growth in Ukrainian users confusing google's geoip?

2017-06-20 Thread Paul Syverson
On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 10:22:19AM -0400, krishna e bera wrote: > On 18/06/17 05:50 AM, Alec Muffett wrote: > >In other news, the FB Onion, for some time after it launched, geolocated to > >London. I can't imagine why. > > How can a .onion geolocate anywhere? Arent they supposed to be entirely

Re: [tor-talk] Is the recent growth in Ukrainian users confusing google's geoip?

2017-06-19 Thread Lara
krishna e bera: > On 18/06/17 05:50 AM, Alec Muffett wrote: >> In other news, the FB Onion, for some time after it launched, >> geolocated to London. I can't imagine why. > > How can a .onion geolocate anywhere? Arent they supposed to be > entirely in cyberspace and hidden? How can a TWO digit

Re: [tor-talk] Is the recent growth in Ukrainian users confusing google's geoip?

2017-06-18 Thread krishna e bera
On 18/06/17 05:50 AM, Alec Muffett wrote: In other news, the FB Onion, for some time after it launched, geolocated to London. I can't imagine why. How can a .onion geolocate anywhere? Arent they supposed to be entirely in cyberspace and hidden? -- tor-talk mailing list -

Re: [tor-talk] Is the recent growth in Ukrainian users confusing google's geoip?

2017-06-18 Thread Andreas Krey
On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 10:50:27 +, Alec Muffett wrote: > On 18 June 2017 at 06:39, Roger Dingledine wrote: ... > Or, indeed, there are people whose self-declared Google-account country of > residence is Ukraine, and enough of them have been logging into Google from > the exit node

Re: [tor-talk] Is the recent growth in Ukrainian users confusing google's geoip?

2017-06-18 Thread Alec Muffett
On 18 June 2017 at 06:39, Roger Dingledine wrote: For those who haven't been paying attention, we got a jump in some > hundreds of thousands of .ua users recently: > ... > I wonder if a lot of ordinary people doing ordinary things via Tor, > and acting like people in the Ukraine,

[tor-talk] Is the recent growth in Ukrainian users confusing google's geoip?

2017-06-17 Thread Roger Dingledine
Motivated by a blog post comment: https://blog.torproject.org/comment/269237#comment-269237 It looks like a growing number of connections from Tor exits are being treated by Google as being Ukrainian. Anecdotally, I've experienced it too -- Google news keeps wanting to give me Ukrainian news.