# Blocking Tor Users by Default **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [September 29, 2022, 3:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-tor-users-by-default/240361 "2022-09-29T03:22:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 5:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-tor-users-by-default/240361/2 "2022-09-29T05:00:07Z")
Discourse is not a webserver per se. Tor is somekind issue, but really minor one comparing to ”normal” network. But how is this situation different than if that guy would use just another VPN service? You can recognize known Tor-IP’s at server level and ban them there, but not easily out-ot-the-box. Unknow private ones… no chance. But in more general level… IPs are useless. My IP changes by mobile ISP at least once a week. Good luck to ban me by IP because it won’t be same on next week. Actually it can change even today when I’m taking 10 mile trip. IPs helps only when there is cable based connections. But then same guy change to VPN and bye gone that banning. Fingerprinting… where is that still allowed and legal system identify users? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-tor-users-by-default/240361)._