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Yes but tor is slow, making it slightly less practical than the tunnel through the VPS. It also doesn't hide your traffic from the exit nodes, who may be less
by moonchild 6y ago
Yes but tor is slow, making it slightly less practical than the tunnel through the VPS. It also doesn't hide your traffic from the exit nodes, who may be less trustworthy than a VPS provider if you are doing strictly legal things.
(On the other hand, if you want to perform a public service, using tor is a good way of masking the traffic of people who actually want to use it to disseminate sensitive information.)
- orestarod 6y agoThe premise of Tor is exactly that you need not trust any of the nodes. The only exception being, all of the nodes in your path being controlled by the same entity. But an exit node knowing that an anonymous user has an encrypted connection to a specific site is usually not a privacy concern.
- moonchild 6y agoI said: > non-https websites from coffee shops If the website you are accessing is unencrypted then the exit node knows the entirety of your communication with it. (It doesn't know your IP; but small consolation. You're still vulnerable e.g. to injection.)