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Why doesn't everyone just use Tor?
by metreo 7y ago
Why doesn't everyone just use Tor?
- klingonopera 7y agoBandwidth and latency being more important than perfect privacy in some cases.
- intopieces 7y agoI thought Tor had exit nodes set up by the government. Is this not true? Serious question.
- eyegor 7y agoYes, of course they do. Most governments probably run some tor nodes. The privacy gamble is that you only have privacy if the entrance node and exit nodes are controlled by different operators.
- babypuncher 7y agoHave you ever used Tor? It's incredibly slow.
- eyegor 7y agoBecause it's horrendously inefficient to bounce your traffic all over the place. Most people won't trade a 10x slowdown for abstract privacy gains.
- amoshi 7y agoBecause Cloudflare and Google Recaptcha will lock you out.
- blaser-waffle 7y agoToo slow for daily use, and not really worth it if you're just trying to keep your ISP or other low-effort groups from annihilating your privacy.