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I use Tor every day for random ordinary things, like looking up recipes or researching banal purchases. The responsiveness of the Tor network has improved dram
by tacoman 12y ago
I use Tor every day for random ordinary things, like looking up recipes or researching banal purchases. The responsiveness of the Tor network has improved dramatically in the last year.
It seems that the biggest threat to the Tor network right now, are web sites that treat Tor users differently. For example, Cloudflare is currently serving captchas to Tor users. It's an automated response based on reports of abuse from the exit node IP at some point in the past.
Some individual sites have been doing this for a while to tackle abuse problems, but for a service that handles as much internet traffic as Cloudflare does, this is not a good sign for Tor.
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/call-arms-helping-internet-services-accept-anonymous-users https://blog.torproject.org/blog/call-arms-helping-internet-...
- dmix 12y agoUgh yeah Cloudflare will make TOR unusable for casual use the more popular it gets.
- ensignavenger 12y agoAny thoughts on how cloudflare and others should go about things differently? They certainly have a compelling motivation for their actions.
- tacoman 12y agoOther than for altruistic or PR reasons, I'm not sure why they would. Currently, they aren't preventing Tor users from reaching the web sites of their customers, they're just making it a little more difficult.
- UhUhUhUh 12y agoIt's all about js. Can't there be an alternative to js built in TOR?