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Is it that maybe someone on your exit node is trying to enumerate valid accounts?
I have tried a new circuite before publish this post - without success. but considering that I use their onion adress they could nit see my tor exit node as far as I now, anyway.
Good point, but also who is enumerating the accounts may have been using many circuits.
Yeah, I've had to go through 20 or 30 circuits once to make Google's captcha allow me through. It just failed with the message "Unusual traffic from your computer network". Someone was probably running a botnet, as this only happens rarely. If Google wanted to block Tor, they'd have done so by now anyway.
He used the onion address, which doesn't go through an exit node like regular darknet-to-clearnet traffic.
and what can they apply that limit to, if not to all tor visitors? It's not like they can distinguish them.