WorseDoughnut comments on Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it

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[–] WorseDoughnut@kbin.social 35 points 3 years ago (3 children)

In theory yes, but practically speaking trying to access a lot of the modern web over TOR would be at best painfully slow and at worst almost impossible thanks to DDoS protection providers like cloudflare.

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[–] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 21 points 3 years ago (2 children)

This right here. A very large part of the web is inaccessible from TOR. Last I tried you couldn't access social media, Google constantly forces you through captchas because it thinks you're a bot, and anything on a CDN will either forces captchas or just doesn't work. Financial institutions absolutely are all inaccessible.

Privacy is important, but most of the places you want to go with TOR to stay private won't let you in because malicious actors want to use it for the same reasons.

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