Re:Dataset of classified screenshots from Tor hidden services
by dublinben on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:20PM
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If you look at the metrics for onion services traffic [0] and total network traffic [1] you'll see that this report is looking at the roughly 1% of tor traffic that is going to onion services. The overwhelming majority of traffic is to the regular, "clear" internet.
[0] https://metrics.torproject.org/hidserv-rend-relayed-cells.ht... [1] https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth-flags.html
It wasn't obvious to me from the article how or if this dataset is statistically significant in some way in regards to total tor traffic?
I believe the tor project publishes anonymized data sets of tor usage, and if I recall correctly the web site handling the most traffic over tor is Facebook.