Been thinking about the purposeful choice to deprecate .onion short addresses with no backward compatibility. At the end of this month, all those addresses simply go away. It's a very intelligent move for .onion but of course goes against the Open Web's principles. Thoughts?
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Replying to @joecianflone
Security! Deprecating short addressing means more complex addressing, more mirrors - and yes, more problems in some ways but it absolutely keeps the encryption and distribution of .onion networking. In a sense, it's like a snake renewing its skin ;-)

Jul 12, 2021 · 6:53 PM UTC