[tor-talk] Why do you use Tor?

[Nathaniel Suchy]

Hi,

I'm curious to learn the reasons that various people on the lists, for those who are comfortable sharing, why they use Tor. I'm also curious as to whether users on this list only use Tor or if there are times they use a normal browser (if so what tasks).

I use Tor mainly as an incognito browser probably once or twice a day depending on my needs. Often there's things I don't want to leave in a browser history or my home ISP to know about. It's also nice if I want to watch a specific video or resource on a website and don't want it in my recommendations later on. That said there are some things I just look at in Safari (please don't judge me for using a WebKit Browser :P    )

What about people on this list? Look forward to hearing from you all :)
Cordially,
Nathaniel Suchy

[Mirimir]

Post by Nathaniel Suchy
Hi,
I'm curious to learn the reasons that various people on the lists, for those who are comfortable sharing, why they use Tor. I'm also curious as to whether users on this list only use Tor or if there are times they use a normal browser (if so what tasks).
I use Tor mainly as an incognito browser probably once or twice a day depending on my needs. Often there's things I don't want to leave in a browser history or my home ISP to know about. It's also nice if I want to watch a specific video or resource on a website and don't want it in my recommendations later on. That said there are some things I just look at in Safari (please don't judge me for using a WebKit Browser :P    )
What about people on this list? Look forward to hearing from you all :)
Cordially,
Nathaniel Suchy

It's a lot like that for me. But I do formalize, considering that I have
various online personas, and compartmentalize them. So for example, as
my meatspace persona, I never use Tor. Just a mainstream VPN service,
usually one of the ones that consumer sites recommend. Maybe even HMA ;)

That's so I blend in. Where I am, it's quite common to use VPN services
for torrenting, streaming, etc. So my family and I do all that, and I
just chain additional VPN services for other personas. But Tor, that
would be unusual, and the less of that the better.

Mirimir uses nested VPN chains. But never Tor. Some of my other personas
use other nested VPN chains. But most of them add Tor to the mix. Also,
I lease (as anonymously as possible) servers and VPS, for various
projects. I hit those with SSH via Tor (sometimes via exits, and
sometimes via .onion SSH. And then, from them, I lease and manage other
stuff.

[Mirimir]

So hey, I just got this. Anyone else?

Turing Email
[image: BitBounce]
Hello! I use a new email filtering service called BitBounce to filter
my email. To deliver your email to my inbox, please click the link
below and pay the small cryptocurrency fee.
Thank you!
*$0.05* to deliver your email.

I mean, isn't that rather a rude thing on mail lists?

[Jim]

Post by Mirimir
So hey, I just got this. Anyone else?

Mirimir, could you be a little more specific? TMK I have not received
anything like that and I don't see anything like that in the previous
two messages on this thread. (I didn't check headers). When/how did
you receive that?

Post by Mirimir

Turing Email
[image: BitBounce]
Hello! I use a new email filtering service called BitBounce to filter
my email. To deliver your email to my inbox, please click the link
below and pay the small cryptocurrency fee.
Thank you!
*$0.05* to deliver your email.

I mean, isn't that rather a rude thing on mail lists?

Not only rude, but presumptuous. Not everybody is even set up to pay
cryptocurrency. Not to mention people who would balk at enriching
unknown persons for a dubious "service".

[Masayuki Hatta]

HI,

Post by Mirimir
So hey, I just got this. Anyone else?

I got this too. Seems a list member (allmyjenks at gmail.com?) uses
this service and reply to the author of the mail. Very annoying.

Best regards,
MH

--
Masayuki Hatta
Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics and Management, Surugadai
University, Japan

http://about.me/mhatta

***@gnu.org / ***@debian.org / ***@opensource.jp /
***@surugadai.ac.jp

[Mirimir]

Post by Masayuki Hatta
HI,

Post by Mirimir
So hey, I just got this. Anyone else?

I got this too. Seems a list member (allmyjenks at gmail.com?) uses
this service and reply to the author of the mail. Very annoying.

Yes, that's him/her/it.

I get maybe 1-2 sex spam now. Lately all from gmail accounts. And I
can't really drop everything from gmail. But whatever. It's the price of
freedom, I guess.

<SNIP>

[Damon (TheDcoder)]

I began using Tor as a way to circumvent censorship... so anonymity or
privacy were not my primary goals. Some of you may know that I made a
program called ProxAllium which keeps Tor running in the background so
that I can use the SOCKS proxy in my browser to circumvent censorship.

These days it is different though, as I have switched to Linux as my
main operating system and therefore could not use my own program. I also
have a VPN and use Mozilla-Cloudflare's DoH DNS to circumvent DNS-based
censorship from my ISP...

Regards, TheDcoder.

Post by Nathaniel Suchy
Hi,
I'm curious to learn the reasons that various people on the lists, for those who are comfortable sharing, why they use Tor. I'm also curious as to whether users on this list only use Tor or if there are times they use a normal browser (if so what tasks).
I use Tor mainly as an incognito browser probably once or twice a day depending on my needs. Often there's things I don't want to leave in a browser history or my home ISP to know about. It's also nice if I want to watch a specific video or resource on a website and don't want it in my recommendations later on. That said there are some things I just look at in Safari (please don't judge me for using a WebKit Browser :P    )
What about people on this list? Look forward to hearing from you all :)
Cordially,
Nathaniel Suchy