throwaway8491

Why would you violate your users' privacy just because of the network they are using? Many activists use sites listed here, including ProtonMail, Keybase, DuckDuckGo.

If you're so happy to help USA law enforcement without a subpoena it's a very good thing you didn't build Facebook or Twitter.

You could also find a relay family, email their contact information, and offer to donate on Tor's Metrics page:

https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#toprelays

Some of BBC News' .onion neighbors are forced to constantly rotate their URLs to evade DDoS attacks (notably Empire Market). Admins constantly publish new PGP-signed links to https://dark.fail . DDoS attackers then scrape this site, shift their attacks. Sites stay online, but users are trained to expect URLs to constantly change. This has resulted in a huge spike in phishing attacks.

Tor hidden services are notoriously difficult to protect from DDoS attacks due to its code being mostly single-threaded. Build 5000 circuits to any darknet site, max out one core on the server, and you take it offline. Cheers to BBC for this great step forward for privacy. Hopefully their traffic surges to bring more attention to .onion scaling problems.