On 11/15/19, d...@foundingdocuments.org <d...@foundingdocuments.org> wrote: >> …seeing ads start popping up in the Tor sites I visited
> The author is not clear enough if “Tor sites” means .onion sites or sites > accessed through an exit node. Both onionland and the Internet are full of advertising. At least part of onionland still has a nostalgic feel to it :) > 1) VPN > > 2) Tor Keep in mind that both entites are essentially in the business of selling their own sort of reasonably good yet well caveated products, they both receive sizable compensation streams in return. When evaluating the claims of each, it is best to consider not only them, but also independant analysis as well. And integrate into your own use case and threat models whichever of one, both, or none of them, that may serve you best. Just like old BBS and telnet jump hosts and all sorts of proxies including http, VPN's and even other services and overlay networks can provide good levels of protection for the cases in which they apply. Tor is not universally applicable or safe, neither are any of them. Tools just don't work that way. > expense Any opensource software and its services that appear "free", their users should consider ways to give something back, particularly to those they use every week but that receive little to nothing, in part due to the higher friction barriers smaller and unincorporated projects have. That's part of what Brave, BAT, and cryptocurrency in general is about. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
