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I always wonder why sites like Anna's Archive (and a lot of torrent tracker sites) don't provide .onion addresses. I imagine a significant proportion of their t
by reorder9695 10mo ago
I always wonder why sites like Anna's Archive (and a lot of torrent tracker sites) don't provide .onion addresses. I imagine a significant proportion of their traffic comes from the Tor network, and onion addresses don't have this same weakness that regular DNS addresses have as they're just the key. I can't imagine if they have the servers already up and running, running an .onion address is that much more work considering the resilience it would add and it's existence may even encourage users to access through Tor if they promote it as the primary address.
- MarsIronPI 10mo agoIf they're going to have .onion and .p2p addresses, they should also add Yggdrasil. Yggdrasil is easier to have always running in the background so I don't have to toggle it on just to access AA. EDIT: Never mind, I forgot how the Tor software works. I still think also having Yggdrasil would be nice, though.
- mmooss 10mo agoHow do you access Yggdrasil? .onion addresses require downloading a web browser.
- tremon 10mo agoI access .onion addresses from the same browser I'm typing this comment in. You need a Tor proxy, but other than that it's regular http traffic.
- MarsIronPI 10mo agoOh I forgot that running Tor doesn't automatically route traffic through it. My mistake, sorry.
- MarsIronPI 10mo agoYggdrasil provides an IPv6 address in a formerly reserved and therefore unused block, so you just run Yggdrasil and visit the IPv6 address.
- mmooss 10mo agoHow do you run Yggdrasil? Explain it like I'm an end-user who has no idea what IP is, much less IPv6. My point is, how many users would have access to something on Yggdrasil? How many could - what skill is required?
- MarsIronPI 10mo agoFair, it's not end-user-ready. But they should support it; it's a cool platform and it doesn't take much work to set up on their end.
- colejohnson66 10mo agoOnion/Tor has horrendous latency and throughput. Latency is bearable, but dial-up speeds for downloading can drive one insane.
- integralid 10mo agoBut you can share torrent links via onion hidden service easily.
- adrianN 10mo agoIt has been a few years since I last used Tor, but even back then you could download at megabit speeds over the network. I would assume that the situation has improved, I’m surprised that you seem to report the opposite.
- cakealert 10mo agoThis wasn't even true 10 years ago...
- ThatPlayer 10mo agoThe speeds are usually bad because exit nodes are more rare. But Onion addresses don't go through an exit, and stay within the Tor network.
- xd1936 10mo agoOr IPFS/IPNS https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/ipns/ https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/ipns/
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- pegasus 10mo agoZ-Library does, currently it's http://bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6qead.onion http://bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6q... (as found on https://library-access.sk/#useful_link_tab https://library-access.sk/#useful_link_tab)