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		ezbie on April 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy Unless you're living a North Korea or Iran, I think there's no reason why the average Joe needs anything more than a VPN. There's a use case for Tor and the likes, but in my mind 99.5% of the people who think they need it are criminals or extremists.

rnd0 on April 27, 2024 [–]

No offense meant, but that seems to be a bit of an extremist and borderline authoritarian posistion itself. "You don't need privacy if you have nothing to hide" right?

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