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Why is this a step in the right direction? Having a .onion service provides essentially zero benefit without a hidden backend. People wanting to access NYT sit
by ryanlol 9y ago
Why is this a step in the right direction? Having a .onion service provides essentially zero benefit without a hidden backend.
People wanting to access NYT site via Tor, can just navigate to https://www.nytimes.com/ https://www.nytimes.com/ and it'll be significantly faster than the .onion equivalent.
- jerheinze 9y ago> People wanting to access NYT site via Tor, can just navigate to https://www.nytimes.com/ https://www.nytimes.com/ and it'll be significantly faster than the .onion equivalent. This isn't true, exits are currently in short supply. And onion services don't use exits, so it will result in a faster speed, especially since they may have made it as a single onion service[1]. [1] : https://web.archive.org/web/20161219230314/https://blog.torproject.org/blog/whats-new-tor-0298 https://web.archive.org/web/20161219230314/https://blog.torp...