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I used to use Tor to bypass censorship on pr0n in my country and ended up trying to run a hidden service for fun. My biggest peeve with was the domain name. I m
by amingilani 9y ago
I used to use Tor to bypass censorship on pr0n in my country and ended up trying to run a hidden service for fun. My biggest peeve with was the domain name. I mean, sure I understand why it isn't human readable but then there are so many ways to counter that. We've got the blockchain and we have the IPFS way to handle these things too.
I'm hoping at some point blockchain DNS systems are adopted by mainstream (or niche in case of Tor) vendors. It would make it so much much easier to name onions.
- amelius 9y agoHow fast/convenient is Tor for downloading large files, like video (e.g. via Bittorrent)? PS: It seems that Bittorrent over Tor is a bad idea, [1]. [1] https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-id...
- amingilani 9y agoIt's a really bad idea. I used to stream, though. Which was fine.
- devrandomguy 9y agoIn Qatar, which has a national firewall, I was able to use Tor to browse torrent sites, and then use a regular bittorrent client to fetch the contents of the magnet links (encrypted connections only). That worked great for the few years that I was there. The Qatari internet was a fair bit faster than what I am used to from Canada, about 30 - 50 MB/s at max torrent.
- Teapot 9y agoWorth trying Tribler. Seems it's Torrent traffic inside its own Tor network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribler