Week of the TOR - No theme, besides we are all connecting through TOR for a week.

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Edit: It doesn't appear to maintain tabs if my phone goes to sleep.

On the Android version there's an option under Settings > Tabs where you can change "Close tabs" to "Never". I don't know if the iOS version has that option though.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Android version there's an option under Settings > Tabs where you can change "Close tabs" to "Never". I don't know if the iOS version has that option though.

I think I've figured it out, though the constant loading is going to be a bit annoying.

 

[Sweetened Condensed]

i kind of like being on tor better, it makes me feel like im doing something spooky and dangerous

 

[Lucario]

does it mean it's possible to connect to kf using IP address then (on regular browser)? instead of domain name

Depends on how Null has the website setup. With basic websites you can query the DNS record and put the resolved IP address in your browser, and it will work, but with bigger services like Google they don't allow direct IP connections.

 

[Know As...]

Maybe is just me, but it is strange to look at the numbers on the list now.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

last time I used this shit it took hours to load a page, was like the old days of someone picking up the phone and cutting you off the modem
it's better now, I'm surprised

Now it feels like being throttled for downloading a large game.

 

[DankSmoker]

Maybe is just me, but it is strange to look at the numbers on the list now.
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[TurdFondler]

The best part is going to be when journos start referring to this place as The Darknet website Kiwifarms. Hackers on steroids and exploding van kinda vibes.

 

[I (Don't) Have A Gun]

Maybe is just me, but it is strange to look at the numbers on the list now.
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So the site can track how many people are logged in but it can't track how many people are viewing the site because those people might be sharing an endpoint or might use a different end point, so tor users don't each necessarily have a uniquely identifiable IP address for the server to keep track of.

 

[NJBear]

You can bookmark and save passwords using these settings. Also set to 'standard' in the up right badge for the site to work best.



Now no one knows you're using this site. Tor works just fine. The only thing that might be needed is a was to outsource larger media such as video.

 

[Forprexxer]

I'm pleasantly surprised at how quickly TOR works these days. Last time I tried it a few years back, it was pretty much dialup speed.

One thing that there doesn't seem to be a clear answer on out there.... how safe is TOR from DDoS attacks? The official TOR Project site claims that it's night on impossible to DDoS a site on the network, but other articles suggest it's as easy as downloading a script from GitHub. So which is it?

DDoS attacks are actually possible through tor, I've seen hidden services go down because of them. In my experience the biggest onion services typically make their own homemade DDoS protection where you have to solve some weird homebrewed captcha every time you want to access the site.

 

[gurutu]

I'm pleasantly surprised at how quickly TOR works these days. Last time I tried it a few years back, it was pretty much dialup speed.

One thing that there doesn't seem to be a clear answer on out there.... how safe is TOR from DDoS attacks? The official TOR Project site claims that it's night on impossible to DDoS a site on the network, but other articles suggest it's as easy as downloading a script from GitHub. So which is it?

Where do they claim it's hard to do (maybe they do, it just sounds unlikely to me).
Sadly it's not difficult to DDoS an onion service. There are countermeasures, on the other hand.
There was some months ago, maybe a year ago, an interesting thread on Dread (kind of Reddit but in Tor, you can find the link on https://tor.taxi), an AMA by the Dread admins in which they explained the basics of how they run their website, including dealing with DDoS (they are under constant DDoS as they are the main relay of information about darknet markets). It's very interesting, I encourage everyone curious about how illegal onion services survive to read it.
I don't have the link but it should be easy to find on Dread. An account isn't needed for reading.

 

[PointOfNoReturnPoint]

What if making TOR so well known again sparks a golden era for TOR and revitalizes it?

 

[Megaton Punch]

Honestly, I'm perfectly happy using TOR. The site loads in 3 seconds instead of 1, which isn't a big deal, but it also makes the site slightly harder to access, which gatekeeps people who are too stupid to open a website that doesn't have a friendly URL they can click on.

It's also nice to have another layer of security and anonymity for a paranoid sperg such as myself. I might just keep using the onion link even if the others go back up. Null does a good job keeping user data safe, but you never know.

 

[Beak Thing]

On a morning from a capeshit movie
In a country full of troons and soy
He goes creeping through the Farms like Jimmy Savile
Contemplating a boy
He goes on Twitch in a cheap dress wrinkled
Like a burlap sack in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
He's just grifting for the fame
In the year of the TOR

 

[Daniël de Clercq]

You know what, I'm digging the slowness. Makes for a more deliberate, curated experience. Instead of just opening a bunch of threads and scrolling through kinda reading but not really I am paying close attention, reading everything through. Waiting for everything to load takes me back to the early days, a web page feels earned, you cherish it, read what you actually really want to see and not just shotgun yourself with an overwhelming amount of information.
Much more relaxed, not having to keep up with those lightning fast threads with little actual content. Plus the purple theme is really pretty

 

[Lake of fears]

So how safe is to use a Tor proxy like .pet?

I 'm using Brave right now.

 

[Beatoriche]

Big agree on the color being pretty and the site feeling pretty nice right now contrary to most's expectations.

I usually only lurk on my favorite cows and happenings but I really feel compelled to leave a comment on how cool the site looks and feels right now. Very comfy.

I wonder if a shitton of people will just move to tor now after hearing what it's like.

 

[Meat Target]

I'm also glad the threads on Keffals and Brickface were locked. Now things can cool off, and we can return to our regularly scheduled shitposting.

This'll also keep the retards away.

 

[Lord Xenu]

Kudos to TOR or maybe is just the server load tanking.

There was a recent improvement to the tor network that accelerated things significantly.

The Tor Project has published details about a newly introduced system called Congestion Control that promises to eliminate speed limits on the network.

This new system is up and running in the Tor protocol version 0.4.7.7, the latest stable release available since last week.

Congestion Control "will result in significant performance improvements in Tor, as well as increased utilization of our network capacity," say the maintainers of the project.

Tor and congestion
Tor (The Onion Router) is a volunteer-run overlay network consisting of thousands of relays that serve as bouncing points for encrypted user network traffic and exit nodes that are essentially the gateways to the public internet.

The project's mission is to conceal users' real location and browsing interests, aiming for ultimate internet user privacy and anonymity.

One of the downsides of such a system is slow browsing speeds, which are crippled by traffic congestion on the Tor network's nodes and the queues on the exit relays.

Regulating traffic congestion on the Tor network is challenging without making concessions on the privacy-preserving mechanisms. However, after nearly two decades of looking for solutions, the project finally introduced Congestion Control.

The new system implements three algorithms, namely Tor-Westwood, Tor-Vegas, and Tor-NOLA, which collectively help reduce memory consumption and stabilize and minimize queue delay and latency:

Tor Westwood - minimizes packet loss in large pipes
Tor-Vegas - estimates queue length and introduces balancing elements
Tor-NOLA - works as a bandwidth-delay estimator.
Results and implementation
The Tor project has run simulations to compare versions 0.4.6 and 0.4.7, and the results are impressive across the board with smoother and improved browsing free of speed limitations and bottlenecks, without adding any burden on end-to-end latency.

Throughput graph comparison
Throughput graph comparison (Tor)
However, for the entire community to benefit from the improvements, exit relay operators will have to upgrade to 0.4.7 of the Tor protocol.

Operators of internal Tor nodes do not need to upgrade but will have to set bandwidth limits. That's because traffic patterns will change as Congestion Control is expected to utilize relays at their full capacity.

The more clients upgrade to version 0.4.7 (or later), the more apparent the performance increase on the network will become for everyone, but the first results are already notable.

Increase in advertised relay bandwidth
Increase in advertised relay bandwidth (Tor)
"Because our network is roughly 25% utilized, we expect that throughput may be very high for the first few users who use 0.4.7 on fast circuits with fast 0.4.7 Exits until the point where most clients have upgraded. At that point, a new equilibrium will be reached in terms of throughput and network utilization."

"For this reason, we are holding back on releasing a Tor Browser Stable with congestion control until enough Exits have upgraded to make the experience more uniform. We hope this will happen by May 31st" - the Tor Project

For the next major stable release, version 0.4.8, the Tor project plans to implement a traffic splitting mechanism that should improve network speeds even more.

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