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flippedlast Friday at 1:59 PM1 replyview on HN

You meant Tor network, right? Sadly, making very fast anonymous overlay networks is extremely difficult. You either make it fast or don't sacrifice anonymity. I personally noticed that Tor network has significantly improved and is way faster since a few years. It's also not recommended to exit and if you religiously stay over onions, you increase your anonymity.


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mhitzalast Friday at 3:45 PM

And significantly faster to access onion websites than go through exit nodes, which are probably saturated most of the time.

Reddit over their onion website is very snappy, and compared to accessing reddit over VPN it shows fewer issues with loading images/videos and less likely to be blocked off.

It would be nice if more websites were available as onion addresses (and I2P as well).

edit: also if the Tor browser (desktop and mobile) would ship with ublock origin bundled, that would further improve the experience (Brave browser Tor window compared to the Tor browser is a night and day difference)

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