I can see some rough summary statistics of my readers,
including counts from each country, counts by entry source (facebook vs. mobile
vs something else), counts by internet browser, etc. Nothing specific to any single viewer, just
sums of various traffic sources. Anyway, it raises some interesting questions.
Like…who is reading
my blog in Russia?!? Are you a bunch of spammers/hackers? Or are
hacker/crypto-libertarians reading my blog through proxies on the Tor browser
(proxies that somehow route through Russia) while they are buying drugs on the
dark web? (Please, oh please, be the latter!) And why am I seeing spikes in
traffic to my blog at four o’clock in the fucking morning? The most obvious
explanation is some kind of spammer looking for ways to exploit my blog, and 4 in the morning is daytime in Russia. But
every time I see this I hope it’s a cryptography-obsessed anarchocapitalist
reading my blog into the wee hours of the morning (you know, waiting for the
crack to wear off), perhaps obsessively clicking the “refresh” icon every few
minutes to see if I published a new post.
If I have a few readers who are living out the ethos of the
crypto-hacker anarchocapitalist, surfing the web until five in the morning,
I salute you! Thanks for reading. Keep doing good work out there!
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