On: Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy

[qualeed]

So that the exit node can't go to the site they were scraping and say "this is the person scraping your site".

[radicaldreamer → qualeed]

But you'd have relays in between, there's no way an exit node would know who is scraping...

[qualeed → radicaldreamer]

Right, but the question was "why would you need to obscure your identity from the exit nodes", in the context of why the person chose Tor vs. a simple proxy.

[radicaldreamer → qualeed]

Ohh I see!

[chatmasta → radicaldreamer]

Yes, but many scrapers configure their Torrc into single-relay mode (following tutorials and open source “rotating tor proxy” repos), in which case the exit relay can easily identify who is scraping which site.