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Time to start surfing on the dark net.

PS: TOR will be so happy.

I can almost guarantee that the people that maintain TOR won't be happy to see something like this, since their lives are spent maintaining a tool that can give people anonymity.

The more people that use Tor the more effective it becomes.

More users = more noise = more anonymity.

Except that there's only so much bandwidth to go around. It's not that simple. More users (who don't run nodes themselves) means the same bandwidth among more users = slower for everyone = less usable for people who actually need it.

Unlike exit nodes, most relays are underutilized, as far as I know. (I run a couple)

So if commonly used .onion domains start springing up, exit nodes won't feel any crunch. :-)

Imagine reddit082350235.onion, for example...

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