On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:42:56 -0700 (PDT) Tripple Moon <tripple.m...@yahoo.com> wrote: > By "personally chosen domains" i mean, to be exact, domains that > serve advertising. IMHO, having access to adverts is not part of the > info a user actually is searching for in its normal browsing work. > (exceptions are far less as the majority of regular-usage) IMHO by > blocking these domains the tor-network will speedup considerably > because there won't be need to transfer "that garbage" :)
For the same reason I don't use a 3rd party blacklist for spam filtering, I don't want my traffic filtered by a tor exit node. If you do, great, but don't force it on everyone else. If my browser is told to ask for google-analytics.com, and your node blocks it by policy, my tor client will find a new exit node that allows it. If you block the access to google-analytics.com after Tor (such as filtering proxy or blocklist program via IP ranges) then that's a fine way to get your exit node listed as a "bad exit". I suspect traffic from advertising networks is a pittance in comparison to the peer to peer traffic/bulk data transfer currently overloading the tor network. Tor isn't trying to defeat any one business model, but provide users the ability to control their information to some degree when using the Internet. I use tor to protect my privacy and anonymity online. I want it to do nothing more. Let me decide, as the user, what gets requested, denied, or allowed into my Internet experience. It's the user's choice if they want to subscribe to a list of what one person (or organization) thinks is good or bad on the Internet, but most don't want it pushed on them without a choice. I use a firefox extension called Request Policy to not grab different domains than the one I'm requesting, many of which happen to be click-tracking and advertising networks. For now, coupled with torbutton, this is all I need. If there was a way to set the "evil bit" in TCP, I'd like the option to honor it or not; regardless of how many people tell me honoring it would solve all crimes, cure diseases, and create world peace. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identica/Twitter: torproject