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by Forbo 3808 days ago
The traffic is only unencrypted if the destination traffic would normally be unencrypted. That means that an exit node can't MITM what would already normally be an HTTPS connection. It's a small nitpick grammatically, but the distinction is an important one.

Edit: Another potential concern that I hadn't thought of might be pavki's concern for traffic correlation attacks, but that's entirely speculation on my part since they haven't provided any clarification to their original comment.