There often seems to be quite a bit of irrational hate on these forums against using tor - while yes slower than an average connection, tor connections certainly aren't orders of magnitudes slower or anything like some people seem to imply; I'd say on average tor is like 25% to 50% the speed of using reliable and private proxies. Still very useful if you can get around the pesky problem of tor exit nodes being so easy to ban.
And as to that issue, a useful trick is to combine tor and proxies: It is generally a lot easier to find free proxy ips that aren't blocked than unblocked tor exit node IPs, but such free proxies often have IP request limiters themselves, but rarely do they outright block tor connections. So it is often perfectly possible to find a few proxies IPs that aren't banned by your target, and hit the hell of out of them with connections routed through rotating tor IPs and then the proxies. This way the proxy doesn't ban you, and the site doesn't ban the proxy (Though of course your connection will likely be rate-limited if you are only hitting from a few proxy IPs with hundreds+ of requests).