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I'm also wondering about that. The only recent statement I know of is from Cloudflare, where they say that 94% of the Tor traffic they see is malicious.[1] It's good to protect anonymous way to use the internet, but it shouldn't be ignored that Tor is probably primarily used for illegal purposes.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/

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94% of traffic != 94% of users.

If a skiddie runs a vulnerability scanner that sends 1 req/s 24x7, that produces more traffic than a hundred normal Tor users.

That said, I was disappointed by the Tor project's response to Cloudflare.

Is there anywhere we can read (about) this response?

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/trouble-cloudflare

But, also, cloudflare has made the malicious / non-malicious ratio so much worse. A staggering amount of web content has become practically inaccessible on TOR because of them. This makes TOR very difficult to use for the average law-abiding person who just wants more privacy.

That's not their fault. Tor IPs habe shitty reputation because of the users on it.

They have a shitty reputation because they funnel a higher-than-normal number of users through a single IP.

And apparently cloudflare is much more aggressive on this front than anybody else in this business, including google - when I get a captcha it's always cloudflare (or hacker news). On those sites I can practically rely on getting one.

To turn it around, every time I see a cloudflare captcha they obviously have failed.

> To turn it around, every time I see a cloudflare captcha they obviously have failed.

They how can you tell when they succeeded?

Your perspective is one-sided because you are always a good guy.

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