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

submitted 2 years 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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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Running an onion service is generally much less risky legally speaking than a Tor exit node.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I'm more worried about opening up a port in my home network.

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

You don't. The tor service connects out to a node. This is also nice because it means you can run it behind nat and firewall and whatnot without problems.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

I'd still have to read up on it and, at the very least, containerize it and preferably use a home router that supports VLANs.

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