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Defend yourself against ISP tracking in an Trump-era free-for-all

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Tor

Is often not a great panacea - depends what sites you visit

So many sites blacklist access from well known tor endpoints.

Although Tor is in theory a great solution for people under oppressive regimes to have a less risky way of accesing the internet (not risk free, as there have been plenty of tor deanonymize methods used in the past) it is too often used by attackers. I have websites that block known tor IPs, not to be nasty to someone in dodgy country X wanting to browse the site avoiding the regime knowing, but to protect from attackers hiding behind tor.

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