The Onion Router, now called Tor, is a privacy-focused web browser run by a nonprofit group.
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Most of the nodes are hosted by Tor Foundation itself

Is there any way to check that?

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Yup. You can check a lot of stat about a node on tor website. https://metrics.torproject.org/

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If true, I’m not happy about that. I want lots of different owners so it’s harder to compromise the network by compromising a single entity.

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