[buildbuildbuild]

The “someone hates Tor relays” theory doesn’t sound worth the effort. This could be an entity running malicious relays, while also trying to unethically take down legitimate relays to increase the percentage of the network that they control.

[aphantastic]

This is almost certainly it. There’s a lot of head-sand-burying around here about just how easily an attacker with access to logs of a not-even-that-large segment of the nodes can gain visibility into individuals’ service access patterns.

[alwayslikethis]

Yeah. If you hate the tor network an easier thing to do is just to overwhelm it with traffic and degrade the service. Running some bittorrent downloads might be enough.

[immibis]

This consumes your own bandwidth though. And relay operators might coordinate and notice one address is using all the bandwidth.