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Re:Why offer an Onion Address rather than just encourage bro... by hpcoke on Saturday March 12, 2022 @02:54PM (#30654347)
> This hasn't been a real benefit for years. Exit nodes are running at something like 10% capacity.

https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth-flags.html corroborates what you say about utilitisation.

Exit nodes are legally difficult to host in many countries, which reduces diversity, which is a risk.

Onion services avoid the need the exit nodes, and thus the diversity risk.

> This is just another problem with hidden services. Opening circuits costs malicious clients far less cpu time than it costs the server.

I had a look for this but couldn't find it.

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