[34585]

I have the impression now tor is much slower than before. When loading pages. e.g. Sometimes the page don't load on the first time.
Can someone confirm this?


Protecting onion services against denial of service attacks

One strategy we've developed that makes attacking onion services less attractive is a proof-of-work mechanism that is activated when certain pathological situations occur. With the support of our community, we've successfully hired developers dedicated to enhancing onion service resiliency and have invested significant effort into integrating the proof-of-work mechanism into Tor. In the 0.4.8 release of Tor, the proof-of-work functionality comes to the network as relays upgrade. Your support will help us continue this work.

[FineWine]

privacy seems to come with it's own set of disadvantages it seems.

[AbigailScott771]

Yes I also noticed, TOR is not as fast as it used to be.. good observations may be the algorithm for initializing the private network seems funnelised due to great ddos attacks has emerged in recent times.