What's with the rush to create new Tor alternatives?

[B. F. Bugleberry]

Tor might be controlled by the CIA, so everyone is rushing to make alternatives that are 100% controlled by the CIA.

 

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I'm talking about the leak that happened a while ago, that included a table of usernames, emails, and IP addresses.

Ah, didn't catch what you were driving at. Honestly, the control that Cloudflare has over the internet should be much more concerning to people than any theoretical vulnerability with Tor.

There isn't really a rush to make alternatives. Things like zeronet and other *nets were popping up way before. As for why a lot of them are popping up - this is a response to internet becoming increasingly fragmented.

I suspect those that the more obscure ones are mainly grad student Computer Science projects. Not overly practical, and probably really quite unsafe given the lack of external scrutiny.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Remember the adage.
TOR through VPN, ops of wise men.
VPN through TOR, feds at your door.

So using a VPN connection and then running TOR through that? Makes sense. It's a very boomer question but I don't use TOR and mostly use VPNs for their intended purpose and not for internet access.

 

[DragoonSierra]

I got nothing to lose.

famous last words

 

[Dingo]

I've asked this before but it didn't get answered:

Since I'm not a Chinaman, a child pornographer or a heroin addict, is there any reason for me to use Tor?

TOR helps protect users privacy so only the NSA can snoop on your activity, not a crooked employee of your ISP, a sys admin or parent.

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Kiwifarms has an Onion address as does The Pirate Bay, Facebook and others, when The Pirate Bay is down it can still be reached through TOR. A cool feature of the TOR browser is that it doesn't store any history, it stops browser-history snooping by parents, schools and other organizations, when TOR is closed it remembers nothing not even recently closed tabs.
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