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Instead of addressing the very real problems with usage of Tor, they try to pick holes in the 94% figure from cloudflare (which isn't actually very important),
by grey-area 11y ago
Instead of addressing the very real problems with usage of Tor, they try to pick holes in the 94% figure from cloudflare (which isn't actually very important), and go on to cite a study by cherry picking stats: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11405101 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11405101. They don't mention that it explicitly states something which backs up cloudflare's position:
Tor exit nodes were far more likely to contain malicious requests
and even:
Risk averse companies may wish to block all Tor traffic
The article then goes on to suggest that it is perfectly reasonable to use the word 'block' to mean showing a captcha - in common usage block means block - deny requests, not attempt to determine if a user is human with a captcha or some other method - that's not blocking, it's annoying and potentially pointless, but it's certainly not simply blocking users and it's disingenuous to describe it as such.
All of that adds up to a response which seems to be more interested in scoring points than finding a solution for legitimate Tor users. I'm not sure I'd describe it as immature, but it's not a very constructive response, to an article which went out of its way to be Tor friendly and propose solutions. It would be much easier for cloudflare to really block Tor traffic, they would probably suffer very little from doing so.
- zzzcpan 11y agoThey are being defensive. > Tor exit nodes were far more likely to contain malicious requests They also were far more likely to issue requests in general. This data point has no meaning. But that's statistics for you :)