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An explanation which makes no sense isn't a good explanation.

• superkuh 5y ago
  Most people hear "tor" and they immediately think of illegal, shady stuff. And yeah, there's a lot of that there. So, for the last decade The Tor Project has been promoting onion sevices as a thing for everyone and that people should put their normal sites on tor too. There's more normal people than shady people and if we all use tor it could legitimize it. Well, I did. I really put all my normal sites on tor too as hidden services. And I got a lot of traffic, even after I stripped out the bots that made up 3/4 of it. My usage didn't really depend on absolute security. Even with the possible hash collisions it was safer than giving all trust to some centralized corporation at the start. So, I wanted to keep using it. But the tor projects real priorities, obviously, lie with absolute security. They were never serious about making tor and onion services a place for everyone. They only care about the people that care about security to the detriment of all else. So... knowing this, I'll stop using tor for my websites since it's only for security first and only types.
  • dragonwriter 5y ago
    > Most people hear “tor” and they immediately think of illegal, shady stuff. To be fair, the US intelligence community created it for (what is, from the perspective of the governments in whose juridiction the actions were to be carried out, at least) extremely illegal, shady stuff, and relies on lots of people using it, including for other illegal, shady stuff, to make use for and concealment of the kind of illegal, shady stuff it is meant for effective. So, that’s exactly what people should think. All other use is incidental and supportive of the primary purpose.