Re:The FBI Identified a Tor User
by from on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @12:14PM
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Have you used Tor recently? I don't find it to be very slow. It's obviously not Gigabit but for just reading web pages it is more than enough. See https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.png?start=2012-01-01&... - and that recent spike in latency only exists because of some DDos attack (I think).
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It's about the same it's always been from roughly 2015. I've used it maybe 6 months ago to get around a YouTube geoblock?
What this graph doesn't really unveil but is so crucially important is that webpages have gotten a lot heavier over the years. In the past, you could visit most websites at a half-decent speed with a regular landline connection. Nowadays you need to download several megabytes of content before you can even load a page in properly.