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So when I first learned about TOR almost 10 years ago in uni, it was said to be compromised to a significant extent by secret services holding entry and exit nodes.
Is that not true anymore?
Most of the nodes are hosted by Tor Foundation itself
[citation needed]
Is there any way to check that?
Yup. You can check a lot of stat about a node on tor website. https://metrics.torproject.org/
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.