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Tor has its own issues (difficult set up, high latency), as well as VPNs (single point failure / tracking, US-based companies must obey warrants).

Perhaps there's an opportunity for a company based in Switzerland to run a private TOR network for obfuscation with guaranteed bandwidth. Private TOR network has its own problems though. You need a large number of users to anonymize each other's data, and the block of assigned IPs can be treated as a single entity and blocked / rerouted as a result.



I'd argue Tor has removed the difficult set-up recently. Now it's as simple as downloading the recommended Browser Bundle, run it and you get a standalone (branded?) Firefox completely set up and ready for Tor surfing.

Admittedly, it is still complicated to set-up your existing web-browser to use it, and latency is still a huge issue - not helped by the limited number of exit nodes.


The problem with the latency on Tor is not the bandwidth, (Tor can download a 1mb file quite quickly), it's the ping. This is an aspect of the onion routing model, not the fact that volunteers run nodes. There are proposals to switch from HTTP to a faster protocol from the exit to the user. It's expected this would result in an observable latency improvement for web browsing.




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