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I'm still waiting for sites like 8chan to be permanently housed in a darknet. I know they have an onion, but we get lost when we offer both a clearnet and an onion service. It's contradictory and hypocritical. Just offer the onion service under a really well provisioned VPS (that can handle absurd amounts of traffic) and be done with trying to find a WAF[0]/CDN every time shit hits the fan

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application_firewall

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8chan and similar make no money. The reason they are able to survive is the cost to run a site is so low (with DDoS protection being critical to lowering resource usage).

Additionally, being on the clearnet is much more accessible to people than having to install Tor, find the onion address and navigate to it. Every barrier added to accessibility bottlenecks the number of people that end up on your site.

Given that the large dark net markets who made millions of dollars were unable to deal with DDOS on TOR, I have my doubts that some much larger target with much lower income would be able to deal with it.

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