[nbraud]

> people in most places around the world already have slow connections - sharing that with others would be the last thing they'd want to do

You seem to misunderstand how Tor works. It doesn't require you to become a relay (i.e. carry other people's traffic) to use, and never has.

Furthermore, my experience with Tor on bad connections is that, once the connection to your entry guard is established (once per reboot, takes 30s to 1 minute on terrible connections with packet loss), Tor was just as slow as the original connection.

For those who have decent Internet access, it just works to watch Youtube videos, for instance, over Tor.