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Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it (www.engadget.com)
submitted 3 years ago by [M, B] to c/hackernews@derp.foo
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[–] 4 points 3 years ago

Its good that it's shadowy, so normies don't use it and get stuff they shouldn't.

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    [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Meh. Tor already is too mainstream. i2p is nicely under the radar, but unfortunately it's even slower than Tor.

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    TOR is too slow for every day browsing. You will never get the masses to adopt something if it’s going to severely affect normal web browsing. I agree that more should use it but it’s just too damn slow.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Why is it slow

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    My assumption is it passing the traffic across multiple TOR relays. Other than using it a few times on a few PC’s I really haven’t dug into it and haven’t done any troubleshooting. It wasn’t worth it to use for clearnet sites that can be accessed with a standard browser.

    My testing was for an IT project to block all of TOR on corporate devices and test blocking users that log into their company account on a tor relay/browser/IP.

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