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People don't type addresses, they open google, type "facebook" there and click the first link. Phishing often relies on similarity between different domain names. Switching to tor domains will remove assumption of reliability of domain name reading.



It will be harder to verify whether an address is real or fake. You would have to trust the search engines. Offloading the responsibility to google basically makes google the DNS provider


Phishing wouldn't work if addresses were easy to verify. And safe browsing services wouldn't be needed either.


And replaces it with what exactly? A trusted source of truth? Meaning Google? Haha.


There is approximately zero overlap between the userbase of Tor and the group of people who get to Facebook by Googling "facebook".


Userbase of tor has no problem with onion domains.


I do :)




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