On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 04:10:50AM +0100, Virgil Griffith wrote:

Hidden services quickly come to mind.

Are there other candidates? I can imagine people deciding not to view certain content through Tor because of speed (e.g., pornhub). But I suspect I am missing some use cases.

Hi Virgil, Threads like this one will do better on tor-talk. Tor dev is about developing Tor, not the place you go to talk about your topic because the developers are there. (Several people have pointed this out to me from previous threads, so I'm taking the opportunity to actually say it on this one.) And to add a bit of content here, long ago I maintained https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/roadmaps/Tor/Performance but then I was wearing too many hats so it fell by the wayside. More recently I revived it into http://freehaven.net/~arma/tor-performance-outline.txt but then the same thing happened. In my copious free time I'd like to write the "why else is Tor slow" document, to follow the first one. Other fires are burning higher lately though. --Roger