Just bought a couple hundred bucks worth of stuff over Tor. Had to get a new identity once near the end, but it otherwise worked fine.
I'm doing my part to show businesses and they should not block #Tor users from doing business with them.
Amazon already knows this, but I've been trying to buy direct from vendors rather than going through a marketplace.
The only way this could have been more #cyberpunk is if I could pay in #bitcoin instead of Mastercard. One step at a time, right?
#privacy
This is the way 🫡
Imagine blocking a browser that could bring in a potential paying customer.
What are they scared of?
Not sure if this was rhetorical, but if not...
They believe they're being protected from "attacks" because that's what the people selling the service tell them. They tyoically don't ask what attacks, but if they do they get super generic answers like "hacking", "DDoS" and the like. Since they haven't "been hacked" it seems like their vendors are being honest and accurate.
The thing they often don't realize is that these services don't block attacks, they block everyone using privacy software, good or bad.
They also don't realize how many sales they are losing. There's no metric for that, and most people will never report it because they've done so before and they were told to just use a different browser.
They also don't kniw how easy it is to bypass this "protection" they are buying. For example, today, it was literally clicking one button ("New identity"). If they realized this, they would instantly understand that an attacker will take the time to click that button, but a customer may not.
