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Re: Do not use tor with browsers other than tor browser
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Do not use tor with browsers other than tor browser |
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Date: |
Sun, 26 May 2019 21:42:34 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Alex Vong <address@hidden> skribis:
> The reason is as followed: Tor allows you to browse the internet
> anonymously. It works by making users using the same version of tor
> browser indistinguishable (i.e. in the same anonymity set[0]). This only
> works if all the browsers have the same fingerprint. Using browsers
> other than tor browser makes you distinguishable from that anonymity
> set.
>
> Another reason is that modern browsers allows loads of way for
> fingerprinting: user agent string, screen resolution, canvas
> fingerprinting, webgl fingerprinting...
I agree with all this, but note that IceCat has options (turned on by
default) to disable some of these things that make fingerprinting so
easy.
Ludo’.