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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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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week 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.