Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it

submitted by Drewski from engadget.com

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[–]Drewski[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I won’t be using for any time soon.

[–]neolib 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

It's okay for websites where you don't need to log in. Never use it for banking websites/email/facebook/twitter/reddit - those will just suspend an account for logging in via Tor.

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Tor is bad news.

Its bad reputation comes from a safe place.

Don’t use tor.

[–]neolib 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Actually I'm posting here via Tor only (for now saidit allows it, but there are random Cloudflare captcha problems when logging in).

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yea. But why?

[–]neolib 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Because I live in an authoritarian country, and can be theoretically prosecuted for some of the posts/comments. I mean, saidit admins are maybe nice people, but basically randos, and I can't bet on them not answering the state request for IPs.

Besides, I have Tor opened all the time anyway, because half of foreign websites is banned (in fact Tor itself is banned, but there is a working way around - so called obfs4 bridges).

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I’m sorry. That sucks.