[tor-talk] Many more Tor users in the past week?

[mirimir]

On 08/27/2013 10:40 PM, mirimir wrote:

> On 08/27/2013 04:26 PM, grarpamp wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Missouri Anglers
>> <missouri.anglers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> PirateBay is pushing the Pirate browser on their website.
>>> People are not searching for it. They are discovering it while downloading torrents.
>>
>> Oh, seems there's a bolded link on the bottom of piratebay.sx ...
>> now that might actually do it. It went up on Aug 9/10 I think.
>>
>> Try asking piratebrowser.com for usage stats. 500k?
> 
> In Alexa's top sites list, their global rank is currently 73. It was
> about 90 yesterday.
> 
> By comparison:
> 
> wordpress.org  -  66
> flickr.com  -  67
> adobe.com  -  68
> vube.com  -  72
> thepiratebay.sx  -  73
> blogspot.in  -  75
> godaddy.com  -  77
> huffingtonpost.com  -  79
> about.com  -  82
> 
> Is that consistent with 500k?

That was stupid of me.

In Alexa's top sites list, it's thepiratebay.sx that currently has a
global rank of 73. Alexa shows piratebrowser.com at about 35,000.