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by AstralStorm 2627 days ago
Why would everyone have to move to Tor? It already works, and the are good solutions for securely running it, like whonix. (Much better than just Tor browser alone, which is still necessary.)

Compare that to random commercial VPN app...

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You may have misinterpreted what I meant by that, or maybe I didn't phrase it clearly.

I don't mean that Tor will work better if everyone uses it. Quite the opposite, it will slow down considerably.

I mean that anyone who isn't using Tor needs a different solution. We have two solutions being proposed to the problem of leaking IP addresses: VPNs and Tor. Unless our plan is to move literally everyone onto Tor, we need a non-Tor solution for the people we don't move over.