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Concern about "About" page telling people to use Tor. #676

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milleniumbug opened this issue Jun 20, 2018 · 3 comments
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Concern about "About" page telling people to use Tor. #676

milleniumbug opened this issue Jun 20, 2018 · 3 comments

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@milleniumbug
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The "About" page contains this blurb:

If you want to keep your public IP address private, please use a VPN or Tor.

However, Tor project explicitly tells people to not use BitTorrent over it:

File sharing (peer-to-peer/P2P) is widely unwanted in the Tor network, and exit nodes are configured to block file sharing traffic by default. Tor is not really designed for it, and file sharing through Tor slows down everyone's browsing. Also, Bittorrent over Tor is not anonymous!

Should the "or Tor" part be removed?

@rigelk
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rigelk commented Jun 20, 2018

Also, Bittorrent over Tor is not anonymous!

I don't think the vulnerability concern as depicted in the 2010 paper is valid anymore, as it was mainly an implementation problem, on a whole different protocol stack (UDP). Please correct me if I'm wrong.

But as for the concern of slowing down the Tor network, it can be said of any connection meant to share voluminous data like videos.

@Chocobozzz
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In fact Tor browser disables WebRTC so you don't use P2P with it, just WebSeed.

@rigelk
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rigelk commented Jun 20, 2018

@Chocobozzz then we should be more specific and say "Tor Browser" instead of just Tor

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