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by blaser-waffle 2535 days ago
A lot of Tor nodes and endpoints are fairly small in terms of capacity and throughput. Streaming lots of porn vids through them eats up a lot of bandwidth compared to, say, writing emails or browsing darknet markets or reading about Tienanmen Square or something.

Tor has a place, but in most countries regular internet porn isn't seriously illegal. Save the limited Tor bandwidth for people that actually need protection, like gays in the middle east, victims of repressive regimes, etc.

Get a regular VPN, user-agent switcher, etc. for your pronz.

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Au contraire: More traffic benefits exactly those who need Tor's protection, because it grows the anonymity set. Your streaming innocuous porn over Tor helps to provide cover traffic for e.g. "gays in the middle east" streaming highly illegal porn. Without this cover traffic, Tor would be utterly useless.

So please do stream porn over Tor. Bandwidth capacity on the Tor network is just fine these days, and your use of Tor helps all those who really need the privacy and anonymity Tor can help to provide.

Thank you, a very good point.