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The Tor network has little capacity and it's abusively slow to use for normal web browsing. The experience for video streaming will be abysmal.
by user5994461 8y ago
The Tor network has little capacity and it's abusively slow to use for normal web browsing. The experience for video streaming will be abysmal.
- ThePhysicist 8y agoI'm not saying use the Tor network but rather implement the protocol on a custom, provider-specific infrastructure.
- Kalium 8y agoI believe your interlocutor is suggesting that the Tor protocol makes tradeoffs in its design that tend to make it slow. This is demonstrated by slowness in the largest Tor deployment to date. Also, have a large and single-purpose Tor deployment controlled by a single provider would mean there would be no privacy from that provider and anyone able to send them subpoenas. I think that this weakens the privacy provided to the point where the decision to use Tor at all becomes questionable.
- ThePhysicist 8y agoSure but the goal of such a system is just to distribute content more efficiently so protecting the users from the provider of the system is not the goal, you just want to protect the users from each other, if you like.
- Kalium 8y agoIn that case, I'm afraid I don't see any advantages over a traditional CDN. Certainly not any privacy advantages, almost certainly not any performance advantages, and probably not any cost advantages either. Is there something I've missed? Can you help me?
- crtasm 8y agoIt's usually fast enough to watch YouTube, capacity has gone up a lot in the past few years IIRC.