I use Tor every day for random ordinary things, like looking up recipes or researching banal purchases. The responsiveness of the Tor network has improved dramatically in the last year.
It seems that the biggest threat to the Tor network right now, are web sites that treat Tor users differently. For example, Cloudflare is currently serving captchas to Tor users. It's an automated response based on reports of abuse from the exit node IP at some point in the past.
Some individual sites have been doing this for a while to tackle abuse problems, but for a service that handles as much internet traffic as Cloudflare does, this is not a good sign for Tor.
It seems that the biggest threat to the Tor network right now, are web sites that treat Tor users differently. For example, Cloudflare is currently serving captchas to Tor users. It's an automated response based on reports of abuse from the exit node IP at some point in the past.
Some individual sites have been doing this for a while to tackle abuse problems, but for a service that handles as much internet traffic as Cloudflare does, this is not a good sign for Tor.
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/call-arms-helping-internet-...