[sir-alien]

This will slowly but surely push many sites and systems like this onto Tor. Although Tor isn't perfect, keeping all Tor traffic in Tor on an onion address, does help mitigate tracking.

For example, The Pirate Bay is on an onion domain which is going to make it rather difficult to track and shutdown now.

Eventually what will happen is that smart people will develop something similar to Tor that just adds a layer to the internet where all traffic is privately transported with zero exposure while still being reasonably fast.

I think the only thing that puts Tor at a disadvantage right now is speed.

[CyanBird]

Tor recently has left a bad taste on my mouth, having state actors like the BBC (read: cghq) start up new tor nodes to use against their state enemies all the while debasing trust on it alongside its allies... I don't know, it just leaves a really bad taste, not that we are all unaware of how "inqtel and friends" have allowed the current worldwide software ecosystem to even exist... But still leaves a bad, bad aftertaste

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/08/as-uk-government-is-stil...

[mavhc]

So your complaint is a system designed to circumvent state censorship is being used to circumvent state censorship?

Did you only want pirates to use it?

[A4ET8a8uTh0]

In a sense, isn't it what is happening now ( and why some companies offer 'being able to search dark web' as a service?). I agree that speed appears to be the limiting factor now.