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  • Thread Starter jfu

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    Thank you very much for your answer, Keith.

    But Tor sends a referer if the user is on the same domain, i. e. if he submits a form to log in. Otherwise not.

    You cannot say that people “who have nothing to hide and are not engaged in illegal or illicit activity have no need to use TOR”. Because then everybody who exercises his right of privacy protection and uses Tor for this reason would act illegal or illicit.

    Thread Starter jfu

    (@jfu)

    The Topic was dicussed one year ago in the following forum thread:

    WordPress ? Support ? [Plugin: Stop Spammer Registrations Plugin] I’m blocked because of using Tor???

    The author of the Plugin stated in his answer:

    It [i. e. Tor/jfu] does not send information like HTTP headers which are required to identify things like the type of browser you use, the capabilities of the browser, or what page referred you.

    All web browsers send these headers. Spammers fail to send these headers because of bad programming. Without them you look like a spammer.

    That’s wrong. Tor sends a complete header:

    Host: Domain Name
    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0
    Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
    Accept-Language: de-de,de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
    Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
    Connection: keep-alive

    It don’t know how the plugin blocks Tor users.

    But the author of the plugin is mixing up something in his answer because Tor users want to protect the privacy and want to stay anonymous (Tor Project: Overview
    ) for comprehensible reasons.

    Therefore it would be interesting to find out how and why the Stop Spammers Registration Plugin blocks Tor users.

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