Well, the advertising could be provided in several way:
a) Charity based advertisement Replace most ADV (facebook, google, linkedin, tom, baidu, etc) with boxes inviting the user to provide donation tor Tor Project, Eff or to a specific Tor Servers project (such as torservers.net). b) Automatic Tor Servers network billing/management An interesting way would be to ask for donation trough paypal and other electronic payment systems with the 'fees' going directly into an account that is used to pay for Tor Servers. An automatic system would also be able to 'setup' new Tor Servers if there is enough credit, or to shutdown Tor Servers if the monthly credit is not enough. That way a proportional increase of Tor Traffic would allow automatic setup of new Tor Servers, while a reduction of traffic would reduce the number of Tor Servers (for example using Amazon EC2 or RackSpace Cloud servers) c) Referral based advertisement Replace most ADV (facebook, google, linkedin, tom, baidu, etc)) with promotion to buy goods and services related to Privacy and/or Freedom of speech (Amazon's books, Disk encryption software, PC/Mac/Mobile Security Suite). Such approaches could avoid: - The effort to 'recruit' publisher like Anchror Free is doing - The problem of unique IP addresses of Tor Exit Nodes (that would appear like a fraud to most) - The problem of user profiling (the ADV would not be based on User-Content-Behaviour, so it would not be a privacy invasion) The hijacking could be done on the basis of DNS without parsing web content. Tor has a DNS cache of 5 minutes, it could be lowered to manage specifically that requests. However it would be much more efficient is it would be done at least by looking at the Language of the user, to serve ADV in the right user language. On my tor exit node node i would like to reduce the Tor DNS cache from 5 minutes to 5 seconds and log all DNS requests to do proper ADV capability profiling: - Given sample of 100GB of Tor Exit Traffic how many ADV could be served (by hijacking ADV providing url) ? With such answer it would be possible at least to understand the economical feasibility of it. -naif On 8/7/11 4:08 AM, Collin Anderson wrote: > For whatever it's worth, this seems to be a common model for a number of > free VPN and Glype-style Web-based providers, who cater to clients > attempting to get around content filtering. I've been interested in the > mechanics and economics of the approach, but haven't yet had time to do > any investigation. > > *CDA* _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
