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Did they ever present you with evidence of anything? From what I've heard it's quite possible to identify Tor traffic if you're determined enough. Perhaps they

• brightball 5y ago
  Maxmind API's will identify Tor traffic pretty reliably fwiw. I tried Tor one time years ago when I was testing Maxmind. It always seemed like if you were using it you'd become an exit node by default (I could be completely wrong on this, I haven't looked into deeply). Just gave me the impression that my IP address would suddenly be associated with whatever anyone else was doing and that seemed...bad. Totally understand that there are plenty of perfectly valid uses of Tor but you don't really hear much about those.
  • miloignis 5y ago
    Exit nodes are specifically set up and run, you do not become one by default. Using the Tor browser doesn't even make you a relay node: https://support.torproject.org/tbb/tbb-33/ https://support.torproject.org/tbb/tbb-33/
    • brightball 5y ago
      That’s good to know.