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Interesting. They should monitor non-Tor access to the site for a bit for kicks. I have a feeling that would provide some interesting results :)


Unfortunately, traffic coming from Tor and traffic coming from the onion.to forwarder all looks the same to me :(


Could you fingerprint the browser to determine how many users are using the Tor Browser? Obviously this will miss the people who just use a normal browser through Tor. Or ask onion.to to log how many requests they are forwarding to you. Although, this will miss any other proxying service that happens to be running.


the easiest way is for me to just watch the referrer, it's all coming from VentureBeat :)

edit: Well, most of it, some is from feed readers


To clarify, TorSearch isn't accessible from clearnet (from my understanding) so he can't monitor->correlate individuals activity. Such as a nefarious search.


This is exactly true; however, if a user is coming in through the onion.to forwarder as provided in the article, remember that they can track anything that you do!


If you are interested in tracking from within Tor vs in via tor2web, look for the header "X-tor2web: encrypted" on HTTP requests.




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