On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 08:25:06AM -0500, Matt Traudt wrote:
I want to be able to receive a new **different** IP address for different connections which a bash script makes. Suppose (simplified):
[...] It sounds a lot like you're trying to do some of those things that hurt Tor: either by unfairly consuming its resources for your personal gain (e.g. yet another hobby Tor-powered web crawler or SEO), or by harming its reputation by "ethically" hacking or vulnerability scanning the web.
Thanks Matt. I agree that most people who want to automate connections through Tor using many different exits are probably not doing it with the sustainability of the Tor network in mind. That is, maybe they think of the Tor network as this magic huge anonymous thing that they can do anything over, but the reality is that sustainability is a huge deal since ISPs and websites form opinions about Tor based on their experiences with folks who make bulk automated requests.
And see also https://blog.torproject.org/call-arms-helping-internet-services-accept-anony... for the same issue from the other side.
So: Mike, please think deeply about whether your planned activities would be spoiling the party for all the other Tor users out there, who want to be doing ordinary web browsing and not get punished when websites freak out and try to block your requests.
Thanks, --Roger