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Tor Project Accuses CloudFlare of Mass Surveillance, Sabotaging Traffic (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Tensions are rising between Tor Project administrators and CloudFlare, a CDN and DDoS mitigation service that's apparently making the life of Tor users a living hell. Tor administrators are saying that CloudFlare is making Tor users enter CAPTCHAs multiple times, tracking their Web sessions, and sharing data with other companies. Additionally, a study by some UK and US researchers found that are 1.3 million websites blocking access to Tor users, 3.67% being Alexa Top 1000 sites.
Although I am for an anonymous internet, all serious attempts to enter our systems have come from Russian, Chinese, Korean and Tor ips. And an ignorable part of traffic from those IPs is legitimate.
How do you stop Tor from being abusive?
The Cloudflare DDoS stuff is really annoying. You have to enable JavaScript (and it takes a few seconds) to load pages that would otherwise display fine w/ NoScript blocking just about everything. I'm at the point where I just close most pages that use it and treat them like clickbait crap on Facebook. Yeah, that headline sounds interesting but not worth the frustration and security risk.
And even if it doesn't, it manages to break the 'web in all sorts of interesting ways. Javascript really shouldn't be a basic requirement just to load a page, for one.
Aside: Math fail? 0.0367 * 1.3*10^6 = 47710, those don't all fit in the alexa top 1000, or it secretly isn't a top 1000.
.. What 0.7 of a web site?
Yahoo. That's what.
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