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Do you use tor for everyday things? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 week ago by treadful@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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I was fiddling with some nixos Raspberry Pi images to try the distro out (along with clan) and noticed on first boot they reach out and connect to a tor relay to setup tor ssh.

It's a pretty neat concept, I think it's cool and maybe a quick way to get connected to a new device.

But the idea of connecting to tor relays at all puts me a little on edge. Feels like it'll potentially draw attention to my IP by either relays gather analytics or my ISP for noticing the traffic at all.

Am I being overly paranoid? Am I just completely ignorant to how tor works? Do you use tor on the regular for legit traffic?

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[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't use tor much. My main use case at the moment is using the tor browser for all the sites that block me because I use a vpn. Works most of the time. I have a small list of onion sites that are only accessible through tor but it's more of "break glass in case of privacy emergency" type of thing.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Honestly surprising that websites would block VPNs, but not Tor? Tor seems like it should be considered even less trustworthy from their perspective?

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

My guess is that it's a lot easier to get a list of IPs to block from VPN providers than tor exit nodes

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 days ago

I doubt that because for example the Wikimedia wikis have been very successfully blocking Tor exit nodes from editing their wikis for a very long time; if they can do that, anyone can.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have a small list of onion sites that are only accessible through tor but it’s more of “break glass in case of privacy emergency” type of thing.

Services you run or ones you use in certain circumstances?

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

The latter