Actually bridge use has just gone up like Turkey. It took a couple of days after your comment for the UAE charts to get updated. Wait a week more and we'll see if the same noisy zig-zag pattern appears in unbridged…
Turkey Blocks' research and terminal capture suggest each failed attempt causes about 100 broken Tor connections, explaining the spike in metrics where one would really expect a drop.
The same rise was seen in Turkey last month. The phenomenon is caused by failed reconnect due to DPI-based censorship. See Annex A: https://turkeyblocks.org/2016/12/18/tor-blocked-in-turkey-vp...
Actually bridge use has just gone up like Turkey. It took a couple of days after your comment for the UAE charts to get updated. Wait a week more and we'll see if the same noisy zig-zag pattern appears in unbridged…
Turkey Blocks' research and terminal capture suggest each failed attempt causes about 100 broken Tor connections, explaining the spike in metrics where one would really expect a drop.
The same rise was seen in Turkey last month. The phenomenon is caused by failed reconnect due to DPI-based censorship. See Annex A: https://turkeyblocks.org/2016/12/18/tor-blocked-in-turkey-vp...