March 6, 2026
Tor Wars: ISP Tea
Good Bad ISPs
Which internet providers love privacy—and which slam the door
TLDR: A crowd-sourced list shows which internet providers welcome Tor privacy nodes and which shut them down, warning to avoid oversaturated hosts. Comments split between privacy advocates praising choice and skeptics calling it a “bad neighbor” map, with nitpicks about missing Verizon and a Swiss company mislabeled.
The internet’s messiest guest list just dropped, and the comments are the party. A community-built table ranks which internet providers welcome Tor—an anonymity network—and which ones slam the door. Cue the drama: one camp cheers that letting customers run Tor relays shows trust, while skeptics claim it’s a red flag for “bad neighbors.” The “avoid” warning for mega-hosts like OVH, Hetzner, and Scaleway (too many Tor nodes there already) set off spicy side-eye, and Linode gets a glow-up for allowing “reduced” exit servers, while Gcore blocks them and MAXKO leans full privacy with crypto and no personal info. People loved the real-world receipts—10TB traffic here, “unlimited” bandwidth gotchas there, and a cautionary tale about providers getting jumpy over abuse complaints. Commenters brought the heat and the housekeeping: “I see Comcast but no Verizon?” asked one eagle-eyed reader, while another corrected that Infomaniak is Swiss, not French. Someone even dropped an archive link like a VIP backdoor when the site hiccuped. The loudest split? Privacy fans calling this a buyer’s guide vs. critics calling it a map of places you don’t want to live next to. Either way, it’s a rare peek at how the internet’s bouncers treat privacy fans—and who’s letting them in with a smile.
Key Points
- •The page compiles community experiences on which ISPs/hosting providers are friendly to Tor relays and exits and under what conditions.
- •Non-exit relays typically attract fewer complaints; exit operators are advised to read the Tor Exit Guidelines and check provider TOS/AUP.
- •To improve anonymity, operators are advised to avoid providers/countries with high Tor capacity and use Tor Metrics to analyze distribution by country/AS.
- •A list of hosters (e.g., OVHcloud, Scaleway, Hetzner, IONOS, netcup) is flagged to avoid for diversity because they already host many Tor nodes.
- •Provider-specific notes include: Gcore disallows exits; Linode allows exits with reduced policies; MAXKO Hosting supports exits with privacy-friendly terms; OVH Kimsufi disallows exits.