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Re: Cloudflare ReCAPTCHA De-Anonymizes Tor Users

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> Tor is already slow Relatively, sure. But I've found it very usable in recent times actually. Used it almost full-time (besides a normal Firefox instance for the company's intranet) to get around some silly firewall that wouldn't let me download "hack tools" (I was an intern in the cyber security department, security tools were part of my job). There were times where I didn't notice at all that I was using Tor, and…

You probably should have spent some time fixing that hole in the firewall that let you bypass your company's download restrictions. ;-)

You would usually not try to block Tor at the network level. You would lock down your computers so employees can't make changes, and only allow them to run executables from locations which they have no write access to.
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