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Why are onion services not widely used? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 months ago by fran@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/tor@lemmy.ml

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It amazes me that onion sites aren't everywhere. They are easy to spin up, you don't have to pay anything and can run it from your own home. No need to purchase a domain, worry about expiration, have an open port. Built-in DoS protection. Anonymity and authentication by default. No need to configure HTTPS. Sure, uptime is on you and there is some latency/bandwidth limits to be considered, but once you are over that, onions are a solution to many problems and the benefits are enormous.

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[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Sorry but for someone who knows just what the Wikipedia intro says about TOR, and having used it like once, I just thought it takes forever to load broken sites just for the benefit of some allegedly improved privacy. I figured it is only useful to people who want to browse illegal sites, but does this mean that any hidden website is illegal? Just for the sake of argument if someone hosts an old-fashioned HTML site about his fucking hobby, will they face legal repercussions just for serving it as a hidden webpage? I can't fathom that.