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Ah yes, but then who controls those servers? A lot of people think that US Government agents own enough TOR nodes to de-anonymize.

• userbinator 8y ago
  To be fair, in my experience there seem to be a lot more people frustrated with ads than scared of the government. Someone who wants privacy/anonymity is likely to not want ads, but I think those who don't want ads is actually a larger group.
  • metildaa 8y ago
    Why would a browser or extension client side not be better? Adding an intermediary would add latency needlessly...
    • samstave 8y ago
      Because blocking at the cloent edge node already has had the bandwidth consumed from the carriers end provided, no?
    • userbinator 8y ago
      It's not always possible to even modify the client, think of the embedded browsers in "smart" devices as well as the increasingly-locked-down mobile platforms. But as long as installing your own certificates still works, you can continue to MITM your traffic and modify it before it gets to the client(s).