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I can use more or less all other websites with Tor fine, though. It's only Stack Overflow that insists on this nonsense. On most other sites, including this one
by yanmaani 5y ago
I can use more or less all other websites with Tor fine, though. It's only Stack Overflow that insists on this nonsense. On most other sites, including this one, I can even make an account and post.
Is their site really so sensitive as to make reading with Tor impossible?
- rmbyrro 5y agoGood question. They might be trying to fight SPAM or else. Could just block posting, commenting and up/down voting...
- james-redwood 5y agoTor generally doesn't work on Google services.
- jbentham 5y agoIs this actually true? I've often used Tor to access Google Docs and Google Maps and to my knowledge have never had a problem. In fact, I'm not even presented with Captchas.
- bigyellow 5y ago
- zozbot234 5y agoYMMV. Google Search might as well be blocked completely, I guess they don't want to deal with all the SEO-targeting search queries that would otherwise come from Tor.
- wanderer_ 5y agoI guess they could just not generate any data from your searches, but I guess that defeats the purpose, now doesn't it? :)
- alexb_ 5y agoIf "fine" means "answering a new captcha every time you blink" then yeah, every other website works fine on Tor.
- yanmaani 5y agoIn my experience, this has gotten better. That was CloudFlare, and they've stopped now. I can't think of a single site that requires CAPTCHAs for Tor users other than archive.is, actually.
- foxfluff 5y agoarchive.is wastes your time on captchas even if you're not using tor
- floatingatoll 5y agoarchive.is requires captchas for iCloud Relay users as well as blocking Cloudflare DNS users, so I wouldn’t consider them to be a Tor-specific example.
- raxi 5y agoAlmost all torrent sites. Generally, "data" sites which people love to scrape and think that Tor is a good tool for that
- fought4thots 5y ago> Is their site really so sensitive as to make reading with Tor impossible? Very much so, strange if people here don't understand that, even at the best of times APT's could be discovered down the track by their SO queries, now compare today, with heightened tensions and certain nuclear armed superpowers talking about going to war with each other. How is this even slightly surprising? SO is vital shit, if you don't agree feel free to null route the site the next time you have a major incident at work :)
- yanmaani 5y agoThere are public dumps of all the questions and answers; you'd imagine that anyone paranoid enough simply runs a local mirror.
- jbentham 5y agoAre you actually suggesting that SO/SE are blocking Tor because they intend to track all of their users by their IP addresses (or browser metadata), using national security as a justification? I still do not understand how blocking Tor helps here. People who are concerned about their security will either use mirror sites, or use data dumps such as what is available at archive.org, or simply not use the SO/SE content at all. The number of users who will abandon Tor and the protection it provides for the express purpose of visiting SO/SE is negligible. This move will not increase the number of persons who see SO/SE adverts or who are trackable by SO/SE. It will also not decrease the number of persons who will be able to access SO/SE content. So I continue to be mystified about the rationale behind this policy change.
- asmr 5y agoPlease define "fine", a majority of websites and services either outright block Tor or severely limit the traffic.