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Anthony wrote:
And my simple
conclusion is this: Tor is slow. Really really
slow. It turns a 100ms page load into a page load that takes many
seconds, *if* it doesn't time out.
Do you have the latest version? I'm getting fairly consistent page
loads of less than a second right now. Maybe it's because of the exit
node thing. But it seems to me like you must not have the latest
version.
Yeah, I have the latest version. The speed issues are widely
experienced by many, many people. It's not just me. You seem to be lucky.
Even that is
difficult though,
because you'll end up clicking a link that takes you to unsecure http
pages (such as a diff links), and before you can blink, your admin
cookie has gone across the web unencrypted. As far as I can see there
is no fool-proof way of using Tor with Wikipedia, except for maybe
blocking unencrypted http Wikipedia at a firewall level.
Cookies don't get sent to the unsecure pages, and the diff links
aren't unsecure.
Diff links are insecure. When someone puts a diff link onto a page, the
secure proxy does not edit that link to turn it into a secure link. As
for the cookies issue, I guess I was confusing myself because I am
logged onto en-wiki as well as the secure proxy.
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