Onion service
You, guard, middle, your rendezvous, service rendezvous, service middle, service guard, service <-> service guard, service middle, service rendezvous, your rendezvous, your middle, your guard, you.
All those hops add latency because of having to traverse anywhere between three and six different networks over the internet.
As much as it slows down the internet, it seems like it might be worth it to just start using tor at all times for everything.
What makes you say Tor slows down the internet?
I suppose they meant that it slows down their internet, not the internet
Yea, slows it down for them
Because to go to a clearnet website through the tor network, you have three hops. And to go to a hidden service, you have six hops.
Clearnet: You, guard middle, exit, website <-> website, exit, middle, guard, you
Onion service You, guard, middle, your rendezvous, service rendezvous, service middle, service guard, service <-> service guard, service middle, service rendezvous, your rendezvous, your middle, your guard, you.
All those hops add latency because of having to traverse anywhere between three and six different networks over the internet.
And clearnet use is very difficult through Tor. Exit node ips are flagged and you have impossible captchas on many sites.
That’s the problem with using a VPN ‘everywhere’ as some people say. I quickly became sick of being captchaed to death, so only for torrenting now.
Very true