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I always have Tor installed and I often use it instead of incognito browser sessions when researching stuff. It's sometimes slow and Cloudflare made it a lot more annoying to use than ~5-10 years ago, but I'm glad it exists.
I'm sure it's still more useful to US interests though, or it wouldn't be funded anymore.
Any time I've tried to use Tor in the past I gave up because it was frustratingly slow.
Those onion layers don't add up to nothing.. also I've heard it's under constant attack. Plus not enough people running relays and exit nodes.
There is no amount of money that you could pay me to run an exit node
Hence the rumors that the feds and state actors do the most of it.
And I absolutely believe it. If anyone can run an exit node, then there's absolutely no way the NSA isn't running one and sniffing all the traffic
Light browsing is good
I have a special hate for cloudflare in me I can't describe