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Re:MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back t... by glenneroo on Thursday July 09, 2020 @08:59AM (#23779689)
Excuse my ignorance, but why should I not be allowed to run a Tor relay (not an exit node!) at home when I have sufficient bandwidth and purchased a static IP through my IP which they advertise even "to allow running of private servers"? I thought one of the points of the article was the propagation and subsequent democratization of Tor/Onion sites? If I have to rent a VPS to run a node, isn't half the point defeated?

IMO the real issue is that my bank is reckless for picking a shitty UK service (who don't even speak our local language - just imagine some poor soul getting blocked because someone else running a Tor node over DHCP).

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Re:MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back t... by bzb3 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @09:50AM (#23780166)
You're allowed, but you will be blacklisted by many services...

I also agree that it shouldn't be a problem if you're not an exit node, but that's the way it works.

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Re:MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back t... by glenneroo on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:15AM (#23780465)
Many? What other services do you know of that will be blocked? You speak as if you have a lot of knowledge/experience in this area.
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Re:MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back t... by bzb3 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @12:52PM (#23782173)
The list of tor nodes is public, and many sysadmins simply import it without thinking much about it. Even though they should only ban exit nodes.
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Re:MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back t... by glenneroo on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:23PM (#23782585)
Thanks for that info, I had no idea it was that bad. It's horrible yet understandable, with so many underpaid, overworked sysadmins out there (i can count myself as one of them).
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