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Re:Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why by zokier on Thursday August 29, 2013 @05:02PM (#6298595)
The RU increase is relatively minor compared to the 50-60k user increase in the US. I find it very difficult to believe that these increases represent new actual people using Tor for web. The botnet-theory seems far more likely.
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Re:Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why by TobbenTM on Friday August 30, 2013 @03:00AM (#6300570)
Using only Google search to measure the increase would not be enough though. There are other really popular search engines in russian.
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