Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue...
by Dylan16807 on Thursday September 26, 2024 @07:36PM
(#41664726)
> Hidden services are a second class citizen that has a high enough barrier of entry
Second class how? I open the tor browser, I paste the link, I go there.
Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue...
by amingilani on Thursday September 26, 2024 @10:44PM
(#41665779)
Even simpler, advertise your onion domain by including a Onion-Location header in the clear-net site’s response.
The Tor Browser automatically detects and offers to redirect you there. No need to memorize the onion domain.
Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue...
by supriyo-biswas on Thursday September 26, 2024 @11:47PM
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This was the original purpose of the alt-svc[1] header, although it's rarely used for that purpose and instead used for upgrading clients to QUIC.
[1] https://www.jonaharagon.com/posts/securing-services-with-tor...
Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue...
by dizhn on Saturday September 28, 2024 @09:09AM
(#41680010)
That sounds like a pretty nice place to add malware to a site once it's hacked and avoid detection.
Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue...
by mktemp-d on Thursday September 26, 2024 @06:25PM
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You can't just lay out a supposed fact that 99% of users don't care about speed without providing some sort of citation...
Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue...
by jazzyjackson on Thursday September 26, 2024 @06:36PM
(#41664266)
I think you misread, I read it as 99% of users don't care about anonymity
Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue...
by tga_d on Friday September 27, 2024 @12:31AM
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We can't enumerate these things (for obvious reasons), but I would be shocked if the overwhelming majority of onion services active any any given moment were anything other than nerds who need quick and easy NAT punching. By traffic volume, we already know the majority is just Facebook's onion services, then presumably followed by the NYT, BBC, etc.
I agree that more applications should make (transparent) use of them, but the whole "darkweb" aspect has always been overstated.
That aside, there really isn't anything stopping apps from building in Tor, or ideally I2P, to lower the barrier of entry to a truly anonymous network. The end user shouldn't even have to know about it. But the profit motive is to not even bother because it might make apps slower and 99 percent of users don't care.