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Huh, I hadn't considered that the rise of 5G, and faster internet more generally, would make "Tor phones" viable. The cost of using Tor as an everyday VPN, on a
by cosmojg 3y ago
Huh, I hadn't considered that the rise of 5G, and faster internet more generally, would make "Tor phones" viable. The cost of using Tor as an everyday VPN, on any device, will soon be negligible (ignoring the usual server-side shenanigans that Tor users will probably have to deal with until Tor becomes more popular and more exit nodes come online).
- costco 3y agoI'm not an expert I think the main barrier to Tor speeds now is # of nodes and concentration of nodes (should have more nodes outside of OVH, BuyVM, Flokinet and M247...). Worth noting too that 5G also makes triangulation substantially more accurate due to higher tower density. Also I feel like the Cloudflare problem and reCAPTCHA hell on Tor are stunting Tor adoption and I'm pretty sad about that. Higher speeds wouldn't necessarily solve those problems.