[HN Gopher] Good Bad ISPs
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Good Bad ISPs
Author : rzk
Score : 87 points
Date : 2026-03-06 14:22 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (community.torproject.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (community.torproject.org)
| observationist wrote:
| If you have trouble accessing the site: https://archive.is/MbT8n
| JaggedJax wrote:
| I would recommend the Wayback machine archive instead:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20260306172113/https://community...
|
| Given that archive.is is known to DDOS and alter archives (See
| all the recent HN posts about them)
| observationist wrote:
| I'm perfectly happy to continue using archive.is for so long
| as it remains functional.
| anonym29 wrote:
| archive.org outright removes large numbers of pages,
| including political content; archive.is has edited a handful
| of pages to redact the doxxing of the archive.is owners.
| JaggedJax wrote:
| The turfing with this topic is strong and needs to be called
| out. Reliable sources are crucial now more than ever. We
| cannot tolerate and promote botnets once they are uncovered.
| uyzstvqs wrote:
| Or:
| http://xmrhfasfg5suueegrnc4gsgyi2tyclcy5oz7f5drnrodmdtob6t2i...
| CableNinja wrote:
| What the fuck is this url
| binaryturtle wrote:
| .onion, aka a TOR internal URL. They look like this.
| halJordan wrote:
| And onion urls are a sha hash of i think the private key
| of the site
| vaylian wrote:
| Documentation: https://support.torproject.org/about-
| tor/onion-services/what...
|
| There are also many web sites that provide an onion
| address in addition to their clearnet address. For
| example, the BBC:
| https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50150981
| poly2it wrote:
| It's an onion link (TOR).
| cc-d wrote:
| thanks for rocking our archive site!
| knowaveragejoe wrote:
| I see Comcast but no Verizon?
| WalterGR wrote:
| How is Verizon when it comes to Tor?
| TZubiri wrote:
| If you are on the other team, this is also a good list if you
| want to avoid bad neighbors.
|
| Hosts that don't ban tor nodes probably don't have a great
| reputation.
| petcat wrote:
| Not to mention, why on earth would I ever operate a TOR relay
| or exit node on my home internet connection? Maybe if I could
| guarantee that it could only be used by journalists or
| political dissidents, but everything else? No.
|
| I don't need the authorities at my door every few weeks
| wondering why some of the most deplorable internet traffic of
| all time is coming from my house.
| blfr wrote:
| Relay nodes don't pose much risk and help mask/blend your own
| Tor traffic.
| giantg2 wrote:
| Yeah, I've run a relay node without issues for a couple
| years.
| ssl-3 wrote:
| I agree with the concept. I should not be liable for the
| actions of others. If someone does something nefarious
| using my exit node (or the free wifi at my coffee shop)
| then that shouldn't be my responsibility.
|
| After all, I have no way of knowing what they're up to. It
| may be good or it may be bad; I can't know. (I suppose I
| can set up a router to discard packets with the RFC 3514
| evil bit set, as a show of good faith, but...)
|
| So I think the risk _should_ be low, but that 's just,
| like, my opinion, man. My opinion doesn't mean that the
| risk is in fact low.
|
| Has the risk of running an exit node ever been tested in
| court? Many people, myself included, simply can't afford to
| have that kind of experience even if we're reasonably sure
| that it will end up OK.
| ikmckenz wrote:
| Parent comment was talking about relay nodes, not exit
| nodes. The risk of running a relay node is essentially
| zero in a free country.
| ssl-3 wrote:
| I appreciate the correction. It's been so long since I've
| looked at tor that I guess I forgot that relay nodes were
| a thing and conflated the two terms. Or maybe the coffee
| hadn't started working yet.
|
| So with the correction, I agree completely: Running relay
| node (a thing that deals only with indecipherably-
| encrypted anonymized data) is not a meaningful risk.
| ikmckenz wrote:
| I think the hosts that Tor recommends against because there are
| already so many nodes hosted on them like OVH and Hetzner are
| perfectly happy with their (quite good) reputations.
| kittikitti wrote:
| Thank you for sharing this, I was previously unaware of this
| table. While I don't plan on running a Tor node on any VPS or
| residential ISP, an option to do so signals that they value their
| customers. I will cross reference this table when picking out my
| next VPS at the very least.
| ouk wrote:
| Infomaniak is listed in the France section but it's a swiss
| company.
| xattt wrote:
| There is an 18-year-old record (updated in 2008 _!_ ) about
| TekSavvy in Canada. The internet was different place back then.
| This info wouldn't even relevant anymore as TekSavvy has since
| taken a business-centric approach in the interest of survival.
|
| This list is fluffed up, without any checking for veracity.
| GIGO type of situation.
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