Yes you are correct. This is the only reason for me from last a few days I am not regularly online after coming back from hospital. I really don't feel comfortable to use a VPN which I am using now :-(
I understand your concern, but when you're already using a VPN, you have to accept that this is the highest level of privacy you can currently achieve. If you're worried that
"someone" could get your real IP address that way (which is quite possible), you should know that even Tor won't protect you if powerful enough three-letter agencies target you.
Do you still have the same issue?
The same issue still continues.
~snip~That's really strange, because apparently I and everyone else have had no problems accessing the forum via Tor since the attack stopped.
Interesting. If changing the Tor circuit doesn't help, then it might just be that your browser isn't routing bitcointalk through CloudFlare's Onion servers. My loading speeds are much faster when it is routed through CloudFlare's onion.
Can you explain in a little more detail how to see through which CF servers the traffic goes - and are there any settings that @AB de Royse777 can try to overcome the problem?