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PIA has already supported Freenode for a long time.

In return, Freenode has consistently sabotaged the Tor service so that the only way to connect safely is with a VPN.

tor was being used for password brute force attacks and required significant infrastructure fixing to make it work safely.

It's now fixed.

If you continue to have problems, please file a support ticket rather than throwing around unfounded accusations of sabotage.

How was it fixed, if you happen to know?

Rewriting a bunch of stuff to achieve a combination of less information leakage and better rate limiting, I think.

I did briefly attempt to understand the relevant chunk of C code, but my eyes crossed and I developed a headache.

So sorry if that's a bit vague.

>Freenode has consistently sabotaged the Tor service

No. Some idiots decided to brute force passwords via tor. They finally fixed it after a few years or so.