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As a website operator too I don't see spammers, attackers and script kiddies from tor network with valid user agents (tor browser or mainstream up to date brows
by zzzcpan 8y ago
As a website operator too I don't see spammers, attackers and script kiddies from tor network with valid user agents (tor browser or mainstream up to date browsers). The worst I see in that traffic is very few people trying to post/upload something anonymously, but mostly it's just people trying to access a few pages anonymously. Bots and scrappers for some reason use fake user agents in tor network and just get 403s, but the amount of that is so tiny compared to the rest of the bots, that's it's not even worth mentioning. Tor network is sort of self-limiting in this regard, because it's too slow and too obvious for such use, it's only viable for casual browsing.
Cloudflare proved that it's both unwilling and unable to solve the problem.
- jrochkind1 8y agoIf I _wanted_ to use a bot on your site, despite the captcha trying to prevent it... and you exempted tor users from the captcha... why _wouldn't_ I use tor to get around it?
- GordonS 8y agoI'm not sure when you last tried Tor, but it's not that slow these days. I first tried Tor several years ago, and it was so slow I couldn't understand how anyone could bear to use it - but I tried it again recently, and (to my surprise) for general browsing at least, it didn't seem to add any noticeable lag. I wonder if Tor has finally reached critical mass and is ready for more widespread use?
- azernik 8y agoThe lag is quite noticeable for me - but it's quite similar to a bottom-5th-percentile internet connection. What was your uplink like when using Tor?
- GordonS 8y agoI'm on a 80/20 FTTC connection, if that's what you mean?
- anigbrowl 8y agoNot only do I use Tor a lot and find it mostly OK, but I use OrBot to encrypt traffic from other apps on my phone and most of the time I don't notice any overhead.