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Re:Sourcepoint: Former Googler Will Sell Tech to Punch Throu... by nostrademons on Saturday June 20, 2015 @03:14AM (#9749269)
This is basically what TOR does. You can certainly do it, but as anyone who has browsed the web through TOR could tell you, the experience is significantly degraded. It's a lot slower, and many larger sites will ban you because you trigger their scraper/DDOS protections.
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Re:Sourcepoint: Former Googler Will Sell Tech to Punch Throu... by delinka on Saturday June 20, 2015 @10:37PM (#9751921)
On Tor your exit IP address does not change for every request you make. Your address does indeed change periodically, but not constantly. The reason Tor is slow is because you're passing through many routers on smaller pipes (people's home DSL, for example) and sharing that with others using those routers.
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