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The 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 t
by amadeuspagel 5y ago
The 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...