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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by jerheinze on Friday June 01, 2018 @01:26PM (#17207725)
All of them from people running their exit from home, which has always been warned against.
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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by Exuma on Friday June 01, 2018 @01:58PM (#17208132)
Where is the recommended place to run one?
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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by jerheinze on Friday June 01, 2018 @02:15PM (#17208340)
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBadISP...

(Also check the new relay guide: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide)

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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by mirimir on Friday June 01, 2018 @05:02PM (#17210263)
Also get on the [email protected] mail list.

But the sad truth is that there aren't that many hosting providers that allow Tor relays. Especially exit relays, because of abuse complaints.

Also, as you might expect, Tor relays can use lots of bandwidth. It's more common to get flat-rate bandwidth for 100 Mbps uplinks, and metered bandwidth for 1 Gbps uplinks. Digital Ocean, for example, just switched to metered bandwidth, and that has killed some relays.

However, all this could arguably change, if Tor became mainstream, as part of Firefox.

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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by benevol on Friday June 01, 2018 @01:36PM (#17207877)
Just use some cheap VPN service in front of your Tor/Firefox browser (which most people should do in any case) and you're good to go.
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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by jerheinze on Friday June 01, 2018 @02:11PM (#17208284)
That has no relation to the cases above which were of people running Tor exit nodes from their home. If one wants to hide their Tor usage then that's something else and there are pluggable transports that are already built-in the Tor Browser to obfuscate Tor traffic to look like something else--no need for a VPN.
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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by Yoric on Friday June 01, 2018 @02:06PM (#17208217)
How does this affect exit nodes?
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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by benevol on Friday June 01, 2018 @02:26PM (#17208469)
If you're worried that law enforcement will knock on your door because somebody used your exit node for illegal internet activity, a VPN service (that does not log traffic) will give you additional protection by exposing their IP address, not yours.
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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by tscs37 on Friday June 01, 2018 @05:39PM (#17210638)
A lot of VPN services forbid running exit nodes in their ToS as it tends to trash IP reputation...
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