[guardian-dev] Number of CN Orbot users?

[Nathan of Guardian]

@David, I really have no guess. I wish we could tell more, and this is
definitely something we will be working with on with the Tor metrics
team. Otherwise, I can say there are regular support emails from users
in China, so it does appear to work when configured properly with
bridges. I will check Google Play to see if they do offer any statistics
for China. Sometimes they pop-up, and I assume, it is users connecting
to it via VPN, from devices they purchased in HK or abroad, or otherwise
flashed Google Play onto.

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016, at 08:05 PM, lists at rickv.com wrote:
> I haven't tried to use Tor/Orbot much in China, after initial fails. I
> just reinstalled Orbot from the F-Droid GP repo, and had no luck
> connecting; this is on a Nexus 5x, not rooted. FWIW, it does work after
> first connecting to a VPN. 

Thanks, Rick! Have you tried with the Bridges->Obfs4 option enabled?

Also, in case the latest Orbot is not in the F-Droid repo, you can also
grab it here:
https://guardianproject.info/releases/Orbot-v15.1.3-beta-1.apk



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