Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why

Re:Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why by prawojaz on Thursday August 29, 2013 @06:26PM (#6299015)

I started to use the Tor browser bundle this week. Manly because of the whole NSA/Snowden thing. Plus Tor was a lot in the news from the Freedom Hosting take down, so I was reminded several times that I should test it out.

Maybe many others experienced the same? At list I have had enough. Obama is tracing me no more!

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Re:Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why by rumdz on Thursday August 29, 2013 @06:43PM (#6299119)

I second this. With everything going on in the news recently, I've increased my VPN and Tor usage.

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Re:Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why by cLeEOGPw on Friday August 30, 2013 @02:44AM (#6300539)

I tried tor long time ago, but it was unusable for me due to extremely low speed.

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Re:Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why by teddyh on Friday August 30, 2013 @03:18AM (#6300625)

I suggest you try it again. It's not nearly as slow now as it once was.

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Re:Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why by cLeEOGPw on Friday August 30, 2013 @09:47AM (#6301669)

Just tried it. Nothing has changed. Browsing with TOR is ~30 times slower than normal browsing. It means it takes 2-3 seconds to load google.com, and 30s-1min to load my local news page, 15min.lt. I don't know who downvoted me for stating this fact, but he either doesn't use TOR or the nodes are near his physical location.

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Re:Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why by teddyh on Saturday August 31, 2013 @08:02PM (#6308567)

Occasionally you get a slow path. If this happens and you're in a hurry, just press the "New Identity" button to get a new random path. It usually works.

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Re:Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why by girvo on Friday August 30, 2013 @06:37AM (#6301041)

Funnily, last time I used it it was so quick I didn't think it was working!

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