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Re:ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde ... by Forbo on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:53AM (#26329990)
Tor's onion addresses aren't human-meaningful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle

Re:ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde ... by GoblinSlayer on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:31AM (#26330657)
People don't type addresses, they open google, type "facebook" there and click the first link. Phishing often relies on similarity between different domain names. Switching to tor domains will remove assumption of reliability of domain name reading.
Re:ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde ... by hertzrat on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @08:32PM (#26337457)
It will be harder to verify whether an address is real or fake. You would have to trust the search engines. Offloading the responsibility to google basically makes google the DNS provider
Re:ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde ... by GoblinSlayer on Thursday March 04, 2021 @02:04AM (#26339501)
Phishing wouldn't work if addresses were easy to verify. And safe browsing services wouldn't be needed either.
Re:ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde ... by dna_polymerase on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @03:31PM (#26333999)
And replaces it with what exactly? A trusted source of truth? Meaning Google? Haha.
Re:ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde ... by sellyme on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:13PM (#26338177)
There is approximately zero overlap between the userbase of Tor and the group of people who get to Facebook by Googling "facebook".
Re:ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde ... by GoblinSlayer on Thursday March 04, 2021 @02:05AM (#26339506)
Userbase of tor has no problem with onion domains.
Re:ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde ... by haha_lul on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @08:36PM (#26337477)
I do :)
Re:ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde ... by NeutronStar on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:23PM (#26331520)
I don't know how you got here today but I:

    1. Opened a new tab.
    2. Pressed the n key.
    3. Pressed enter.
Where does it matter if it's readable if I have bookmarks?
Re:ICANN Refuses to Accredit Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde ... by ajot on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @03:33PM (#26334017)
Readable addresses means you can go to some site for the first time and be sure it's the address you wanted. It's not a SHA256 checksum, but it's human-doable in some seconds.