Tor has its perks, but the popular idea that it is 100% private, secure, and safe is false. Practically speaking it is slow and it lacks the creature comforts of the surface web, but it is a good hiding place for a lot of things, out of the way of most normies.
Tor isn't useless, but it's not what most people think it is
I'm no techie but how I see it is Tor keeps getting upgraded, on version 3 onion or whatever. Even if Tor isn't the answer the idea behind it is, a system that can't be tracked or taken down. There are a few other projects like Zeronet and Aether but didn't really work well for me (and it's pointless if no one else is there).
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