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>Why not publish blogs that way? Because onion sites are slower, harder to access, not easily searchable, and not easily protected against DDoS attacks.
by hyproxia 5y ago
>Why not publish blogs that way?
Because onion sites are slower, harder to access, not easily searchable, and not easily protected against DDoS attacks.
- travoc 5y agoMost of these things were once said about sites that used SSL.
- sigstoat 5y ago> Most of these things were once said about sites that used SSL. in the sense that every possible thing has been said about everything, sure. and to a slightly greater extent maybe they were said about trying to SSL-ify _everything_. but "gee maybe shouldn't SSL-ify sites handling sensitive data" has never been a serious talking point.
- amadeuspagel 5y agoThe speed of light is a hard limit on improving the performance of onion sites. Having your requests routed through six (edit: random) servers is always going to be slow.
- cassonmars 5y agoYour traffic is certainly going over more than six links to get to you today, the only difference is clearnet traffic direction is organized for efficiency. TOR has inefficiency baked into the design for the purpose of privacy.
- mandelbrotwurst 5y agoYes, and it would be better if this sort of inefficiency isn’t directly incentivized by legislation.
- hyproxia 5y agoIt's possible to reduce the amount of hops on onion services that allow it, but it's still not ideal https://support.torproject.org/glossary/single-onion-service/ https://support.torproject.org/glossary/single-onion-service...
- matheusmoreira 5y agoI'm sure all of those problems will be solved once it's popular enough.