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Not strictly useful for yourself, but you could run a tor relay https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en

That is a decent idea.

I have never used Tor though, and I can't say I know the consequences of running a relay. So I'd probably skip that.

As long as you don't run an exit relay, it should be completely safe and legal. The EFF has a good write-up about it https://www.eff.org/torchallenge/what-is-tor.html

Actually, that is quite interesting. Thank you for the link.

You don't have to run an exit node. Just relaying to other nodes helps a ton!

any stats on the number of relays online ?