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Issue created Dec 16, 2021 by David Fifield@dcfOwner

Blocking of Snowflake in Turkmenistan, 2021-10-24

On 2021-10-24, the number of Snowflake users in Turkmenistan dropped from 20–30 to almost zero:

userstats-bridge-combined-tm-2021-08-01-2021-12-16

Previously discussed at:

  • tpo/community/support#40030 (comment 2759213)
  • http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-11-04-15.59.log.html#l-55
     16:19:56 <anadahz> Confused about the meek client metrics in Turkmenistan -- https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.png?start=2021-08-02&end=2021-11-04&country=tm
     16:20:39 <anadahz> How come and there are so many meek clients in Turkmenistan?
     16:20:54 <dcf1> Here is a graph with some more context
     16:20:56 <dcf1> https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/metrics-country.html?start=2021-08-01&end=2021-11-05&country=tm
     16:21:00 <meskio> does it look like related to snowflake going down?
     16:21:13 <dcf1> however zoom out a bit to get even *more* context (esp. wrt relay users)
     16:21:15 <dcf1> https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/metrics-country.html?start=2021-07-01&end=2021-11-05&country=tm
     16:21:23 <cohosh> related info on tor blocking in TM: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40030
     16:22:10 <dcf1> to me it looks like OR and meek were rising simultaneously, then snowflake and OR got blocked.
     16:22:33 <cohosh> wow
     16:22:49 <meskio> blocked? or our failure with probetest?
     16:23:45 <dcf1> but snowflake users globally did not go to zero in the same way https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-transport.html?start=2021-08-06&end=2021-11-04&transport=snowflake
     16:24:05 <anadahz> On 2021-10-31 the amount of meek clients count were almost spike to 1,5 times than before.
     16:24:05 <meskio> I see what you mean :(
     16:24:09 <cohosh> yeah this looks suspiciously close to zero
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