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by coreyja 4759 days ago
I just tried this myself to verify that I couldn't reach it through Tor and I couldn't either. I agree that there should be at least read access for people browsing with Tor.

Also, I would be curious to hear from PG (or others) what went into the decision making process to make this site (or others) not accessible from Tor.

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Unfortunately easily accessible proxies, like Tor, are very frequently abused by spammers and other script kiddies. It's easy to write, or use, a bot that takes in a long list of proxies (or uses the Tor daemon API to frequently acquire a new circuit) and spams a website with hundreds or thousands of submissions per minute.