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Tor is faster than it used to be but this person is not wrong. 2-3x slower is a conservative estimate.

• causi 3y ago
  Yeah I was going to say, if Tor is only 3x slower I'm switching right now. Last time I used it it was on the order of 20x slower.
  • flagrant_taco 3y ago
    I think it's heavily dependant on the site you're using. Loading this page in Firefox on android with a pretty crappy connection took ~2 seconds. In the Tor browser it was ~6seconds Definitely slower and this is a pretty minimal page, but I've got a hunch it really starts to choke when a page is loading a ton of different css/js assets at load
  • metalforever 3y ago
    No its not this slow . You can basically use to to web browse normally , even on heavy js pages.
    • holmesworcester 3y ago
      What's still often slow in Tor is making initial connections to hidden (onion) services. Last year during a DDoS attack on Tor this was unreasonably slow and took minutes or more, at which point sites just appeared broken. Once connected, though, it would still work pretty well. So if your experience is using Tor to access onion services you might have an inflated idea of its slowness for normal purposes. Visits to normal websites were only somewhat affected and were still pretty reliable.
  • anigbrowl 3y ago
    I use it regularly and don't find the latency that painful, though not negligible.