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metreo
2274 days ago
Why doesn't everyone just use Tor?
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blaser-waffle
2273 days ago
Too slow for daily use, and not really worth it if you're just trying to keep your ISP or other low-effort groups from annihilating your privacy.
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eyegor
2274 days ago
Because it's horrendously inefficient to bounce your traffic all over the place. Most people won't trade a 10x slowdown for abstract privacy gains.
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amoshi
2274 days ago
Because Cloudflare and Google Recaptcha will lock you out.
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intopieces
2274 days ago
I thought Tor had exit nodes set up by the government. Is this not true? Serious question.
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eyegor
2274 days ago
Yes, of course they do. Most governments probably run some tor nodes. The privacy gamble is that you only have privacy if the entrance node and exit nodes are controlled by different operators.
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klingonopera
2274 days ago
Bandwidth and latency being more important than perfect privacy in some cases.
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babypuncher
2274 days ago
Have you ever used Tor? It's incredibly slow.
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