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eddythompson80today at 2:04 AM1 replyview on HN

Tor does it by being so painfully slow an unreliable that the only way you would use it is if there is a cocaine-style reward at the end of it.


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staringforwardtoday at 4:33 AM

> Tor does it by being so painfully slow an unreliable

I do 95% of my web browsing via Tor Browser and it is very tolerable, most circuits are fast enough for 1080p video (Youtube, Twitch livestreams, etc) without any buffering.

Here is a speedtest I ran just moments ago, I would hardly consider this "painfully slow": https://www.speedtest.net/result/19172283165.png

Of course this is a single tor circuit with an exit node, so speeds are slower when going directly to .onion sites, but the only real slowness comes from the latency and not throughput.