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Definitely, but they shouldn't complain when the public Internet (Cloudflare) blocks them or views their traffic differently. Anonymity comes at a price, and th
by eeeeeeeeeeeee 11y ago
Definitely, but they shouldn't complain when the public Internet (Cloudflare) blocks them or views their traffic differently. Anonymity comes at a price, and this is one of them. I think TOR is an important project, but this blog post by them is completely ridiculous and ignores reality.
Why should TOR get a pass on this when network operators need to protect their network from abuse? The choices are either 1) let the abuse continue or 2) try to block the specific attack traffic in question by heuristics which is often difficult or impossible or 3) block abusive IP addresses.
- jcoffland 11y agoComplain is exactly what they should do. People should care about privacy even when it's other people's privacy.
- zaphar 11y agoNo one's privacy is being violated here. The right to privacy is not the same thing as the right to access. If someone doesn't want to allow you anonymous access it is their right to block you. Anyone using CF and not whitelisting Tor is effectively saying. If you want to visit my site you need to verify that you aren't a bad actor. If you don't want to do that because of privacy reasons then you can't visit.
- jessaustin 11y agoHaha if CF get this kind of response to their gentle observations I'd hate to see what a frank honest complaint would get...