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Well, how does Tor or other services do it now?

• spencerflem 5mo ago
  They get blocked by Recaptcha, I think. I’m not talking about the network itself but the servers on the other end. I guess my point is that while Google is definitely malicious, I don’t think every site using recaptcha is and if we expect them not to use that tool there should probably be an alternative.
  • 986aignan 5mo ago
    > They get blocked by Recaptcha, I think. I think SV was asking what onion services, which can't really use recaptcha, do to prevent the DDoS storm. And I would imagine the answer is obscurity, since the dark web isn't nearly as well-mapped as the public web. That and some Anubis or other PoW would probably go far.
    • SV_BubbleTime 5mo ago
      Proof of work I get, but isn’t that like step2? If I’m hosting at some IP, I still need Anubis or something to serve up the challenge, so doesn’t that become the attack point?
• eddythompson80 5mo ago
  Tor does it by being so painfully slow an unreliable that the only way you would use it is if there is a cocaine-style reward at the end of it.
  • staringforward 5mo ago
    > Tor does it by being so painfully slow an unreliable I do 95% of my web browsing via Tor Browser and it is very tolerable, most circuits are fast enough for 1080p video (Youtube, Twitch livestreams, etc) without any buffering. Here is a speedtest I ran just moments ago, I would hardly consider this "painfully slow": https://www.speedtest.net/result/19172283165.png https://www.speedtest.net/result/19172283165.png Of course this is a single tor circuit with an exit node, so speeds are slower when going directly to .onion sites, but the only real slowness comes from the latency and not throughput.
    • nervysnail 5mo ago
      Do you add uBlock Origin to Tor? I know that it is not recommended.