The amount of people buy stuff online via torbrowser should be quite low (besides at some some "silkroads") , any serious online shop like amazon will block Tor or VPN, otherwise the fraud order rate is quite high. At least the CC processor / paypal / whatever will block Tor.
> Dear all, > > i've been told of some VPN services that are funding themselves by > "spoofing" the referral ID in their users traffic, for hundreds of > different websites for which they made an agreement for Referral / > Affiliate Marketing, when they earn a commission. > > I'm wondering if that couldn't be a very interesting model also for > TorBrowser, whereby the TorBrowser would automatically inject a referral > ID (in the HTTP header or URL parameters), whenever a user connect to a > certain amount of sites when they can buy something, and whenever the > user buy something, the Tor Project Inc. get back a commission a way of > financing the organization. > > That kind of model could be implemented with a custom plug-in within the > Tor Browser. > > I don't see any risks for the end-users because: > * For the end-user there would be no difference, as he would buy anyway > what he want to buy at the same price. > > * If the end-user is buying something, he's already giving up his > identity details to the shopping site > > * The website of the shop (being Amazon or others) will anyhow be able > to identify that the user is coming from Tor network by looking at the > IP address, so there would be no private information disclosure. > > What i don't know, is how many persons buy stuff online by using the Tor > Browser!? > -- -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
