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Support Tor's first donation campaign.

Become a crowdfunder.

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/our-first-real-donations-ca...

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I can't believe they're using PayPal of all things...

Agree, lutz.

But EFF and Freedom of Press also use Paypal and they have a nice interface for monitoring recurring contributions.

I agree but I think the problem is the lack of an alternative in the space. PayPal works across countries.

You can even send in cash...

You can play via bitcoins if that is your thing:

https://www.torproject.org/donate/donate-options.html.en

Some of us like PayPal.

What are the alternatives that work well internationally? Only Bitcoin comes to my mind, but it's a mess to buy, conversation rates fluctuate wildly and is far from easy to use.

Why does Tor need a director? If it is truly a decentralized network, why should the project require centralized project administrators? Because of funding and donation? Let's put the whole spread the initiative PR stuff away (of course that cost money), plus the hosting cost, what else do they use the donation for?

They use the funding to pay the developer who develop the Tor software/daemon and the engineering effort there is extraordinary.

Thousands of volunteers provide the network capacity that makes the daemon useful.

Thank you for the info. This is helpful to know.

[edit] Have you folks looked at https://gratipay.com/search as another source of crowdfunding for developers? I am not sure which one is more effective for general funding.

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