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“In particularly decentralized techs, TOR, and other technologies are fully robust against these actions.”

“more relay improve the network for hidden services (which are insanely cool to self-host some stuff, free NAT traversal !)”

“The regular person using it doesn't get as much of the privacy benefits, but the charade is making it seem like they do.”

“onion services are actually a really great way to make a BBS service. It's extremely easy to setup.”

“It's easy to do from your home even behind a NAT because it's an outgoing connection from your point of view”

“It does the exact same thing, except supported by a global network of volunteers around the world.”

“This bypasses centralized DNS services that may face national blocking orders while retaining privacy.”

“Tor is totally capable of hosting zlibrary without bandwidth restrictions getting in the way.”

“Slow and TCP only. Also requires client to have software that raises the odds that you're doing something sketchy.”

“Make it easy on yourself and just use Tor. Clearing everything is a matter of clicking on "new tor circuit for site".”

“If you want an actual private Firefox Browser use a fork like Mullvad Browser, LibreWolf and Tor Browser.”

“It's better to take firefox/tor browser's approach and have a common profile eg. "resistfingerprinting" to get crowd anonymity.”

“the volume of captchas and blocks on my regular internet connection that I see on the occasion I use Tor”

“for things that might seriously attract the ire of people who consider political violence a positive good, there's always TOR”

“Tor Browser straight up does not even modify navigator.platform at all, so it's incredibly easy to see when you're not using e.g. Windows.”

“the protocol is open and publicly being developed, so even if the NSA added a backdoor, it can be caught and removed”

“Tor is full of honeypots, its good for getting around 3rd party snooping but useless for government level privacy”

“Tor makes sense for some situations but we generally recommend using a traditional VPN for most people's use cases.”

“I think you overestimates the protection Tor provides. We have seen multiple cases of people getting caught on there, and CIA probably owns half the exit nodes anyways.”

“The same technology that protects the spy, protects the journalist, or the citizen whose government blocked them”

“Tor (which masquerades traffic as random bytes) mostly doesn't work out of the box and you need to search for working bridges.”

“I don't think any modern browser is better for anti-fingerprinting like the Firefox-based ones, including TOR and Mullvad Browser?”

“It's a great tool for hosting even personal sites if you appreciate privacy and resilient infrastructure.”

“It has.. Shall we say tradeoffs.. In terms of latency mostly, but I suspect bandwidth is likely affected too”

“Currently tor browser sticks out like a sore thumb by trying to appear identical no matter who uses it”

“The problem in Tor here is that the ordering persists beyond "New Identity". It does not persist between browser restarts.”

“the stable identifier persists even through the "New Identity" feature, which is designed to be a full reset”

“Protecting your identity is what networks like TOR are for, and you can hide a plain text server behind the TOR network”

“They're helpful, but if you're a high enough value target, they only slow down your adversary.”

“I remember Tor being significantly more usable, and not having random 3 second delays on websites.”

“Tor bridges allow people to bypass blocking of Tor entry nodes and look more like normal traffic”

“Getting the links through tor doesn't have the same issue, and then I download them over the normal internet, and everything works fine”

“Firefox is only good for getting forked into better browser like Mullvad Browser, LibreWolf and Tor Browser.”

“Interestingly, increasing the Tor Browser Security level from Safe to Safer actually increased the bits of identifying information and reduced the anonymity”

“I continue to use Tor Browser for entirely innocuous sites that are collateral damage of the OSA.”

“Tor browser alone, with no additional configuration and basic hygiene, is enough to stop any fingerprinting and tracking.”

“Apart from keeping your computer running and an active internet connection, there isn't any other recurring cost.”

“Tor preferably. Tor doesn't help with correlation attacks from global passive/active adversaries”

“the problem with Tor is that people in the UK believe that the only people who use Tor are looking for child abuse”

“Distributed, digital-only, non-monetary, volunteer-run networks like Tor are legally very resilient for now, at least in the West.”