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Re:Mullvad VPN now accepts Monero payments by hall0ween on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @08:50AM (#31247638)
Tor at least but there’s likely more. also rumor in the internet goes (and looking to be correct if misguided) the us government identifies its citizens that dl Tor
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Re:Mullvad VPN now accepts Monero payments by irl_ on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @08:55AM (#31247682)
That's nonsense. There are somewhere between 2 and 8 million users of Tor every day. The vast majority of Tor users are ordinary people that want a little more privacy. What a waste of resources it would be to try to identify and track each of them.
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Re:Mullvad VPN now accepts Monero payments by searchableguy on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @09:14AM (#31247856)
You only need to control majority of tor exit nodes to deanonymize people which many have been doing for a while.

https://therecord.media/thousands-of-tor-exit-nodes-attacked...

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Re:Mullvad VPN now accepts Monero payments by vmception on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @08:54AM (#31247678)
they cant see what you do on tor

you can still take flights, get mortgages, enter and leave the country after being on the imaginary or actual list, so why do so many people care?

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