> I'm not clear from the article how having an onion address helps website operators who receive abusive traffic through Tor. No, it's not clear. Also "abusi

> I'm not clear from the article how having an onion address helps website operators who receive abusive traffic through Tor. No, it's not clear. Also "abusive traffic" is vague. Are you mainly concerned with shitposters, trolls, DOS attacks? > What am I missing? Maybe you're not missing it, but essentially it's a behavioural/social rather than technical challenge. Most abusers, ones that technical changes can address, operate at scale over HTTP/S and use Tor simply as a free VPN via regular exit nodes to hide their IP. The author calls this the "Wheat/chaff problem". Viewed this way, it's easiest for a site owner to just block all of Tor and kill all legitimate users too. Most of those bulk abusers cannot be bothered to deal with marginal cases like using an overlay network with .onion addresses whereas those who _need_ Tor are highly motivated. Other kinds of abusers, like persistent troll posters, are better dealt with by other means even if you're using HTTP/S.