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There are different kinds of anonymity. If you just want to hide you IP address from a specific website's operator, then you don't care much about being trackab
by captainmuon 6y ago
There are different kinds of anonymity. If you just want to hide you IP address from a specific website's operator, then you don't care much about being trackable or not. You just use Tor as a fancy IP spoofing technique. They know that you are you, but might find it harder to ban you or call the police on you. (Of course, they can just ban all of Tor. And of course this scenario is mostly useful for trolls... but I can imagine some cases where this you have a legitimate need to spoof you IP like this.)
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- traspler 6y agoBut any of the VPN services out there do that for you without the incredible stigmata of having an IP of a Tor Exit Node and the reduced performance of the Tor Network.
- gruez 6y agoOn the other hand we definitely do want people to use tor for relatively innocuous reasons, so there's plausible deniability for all the people using it for legitimate reasons (eg. journalists, whistleblowers, etc.)
- butt_hugger 6y agoMost of the stigma just comes from people on HN. Start by fixing that.