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by icelancer 3607 days ago
Not your fault - not talking about your service specifically! My IP was banned by several other companies (I assume from a list that was purchased from a third party) like Hulu/Netflix because I was simply relaying non-exit traffic.

TOR and people who speak for the service often say that it's safe to run a non-exit relay. It isn't. It's tracked and punished. I know from first-hand experience.

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I've been running Tor relays from home for about a year. Only sites I've found to block me are Monoprice and Apple's support forums. Hulu and Netflix are fine.
Does Tor use it's own port? If so, how hard would it be to switch it to use something like 80, 23, or even 8080?
The IP of a Tor relay is publicly distributed, that's how other nodes know to connect to it.

You can see for yourself: https://atlas.torproject.org

Although at a guess, most of these services probably do the simplest thing possible and go by an open port.