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And plenty of people insist that Tor relays are totally safe to run. They are not. I NEVER ran an exit node from my home IP, only relays, and my IP was still bl

And plenty of people insist that Tor relays are totally safe to run. They are not. I NEVER ran an exit node from my home IP, only relays, and my IP was still blacklisted from various sites due to this behavior. I still contribute to Tor via VPS rentals and such, but relays are not no-risk alternatives to exit nodes. Period.

walrus01 8y ago
This is also, sadly, why the individual V4 /24 netblock of cheap VPS providers have terrible IP space reputations in most aggregated abuse systems.
kragormonkey 8y ago
Do you have any idea why it's unsafe? In theory, public site should even be able to see your IP. How would they blacklist you? Edit: nvm, found the answer by pricechild below.