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I think the state department does, or did at one point

can you quantify "shitloads" into an actual metric?

Looks to be about 15,000 regulars atm in Iran alone:

http://metrics.torproject.org/graphs.html#recurringusers

Plenty more graphs and stats on that page. Also read this for information about the type of people who use it:

https://www.torproject.org/torusers.html.en

FWIW Almost all other countries listed have no usage or very little.

All of the countries listed seem to have either thousands or hundreds of users. You think that's "no usage or very little" ? I guess that depends on your perspective.

Tor is never going to be used by tens of millions of people. It doesn't need to be used by tens of millions of people to serve its purpose and be successful.

I'm not sure why they only present that small subset of countries in their stats. I wish they'd provide more comprehensive stats.

Shitloads of spammers.

https://www.torproject.org/faq-abuse.html.en#WhatAboutSpamme...