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Re: Recommendations for browsing via Tor pre tor-browser?
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Christopher Lemmer Webber |
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Re: Recommendations for browsing via Tor pre tor-browser? |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:24:19 -0400 |
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mu4e 1.0; emacs 26.1 |
Thanks for that information... yes, I've suspected that tor-browser
was doing something special that way...
Devan Carpenter writes:
> Please keep in mind that none of the interim solutions are safe compared
> to tor-browser. Even using icecat with NoJS & self-destructing cookies
> (which are both extensions you absolutely should have, if you're going to
> use icecat over Tor) it still is inferior. One of the nicest things
> about tor-browser that is missing from every other browser is its tab
> isolation. Every tab you have open is an isolated session, with no
> shared cookies (and even different tor circuits iirc). This way you
> can't be tracked accross websites by your cookies.
>
> There are some other anonymizing features that I forget now, but that's
> the main one which stands out, and the point is that you should be very
> cautious using another browser via Tor.
>
> Christopher Lemmer Webber transcribed 254 bytes:
>> Anyone have recommendations on how they're doing web browsing via Tor,
>> sans tor-browser? In the interim I have been using the more
>> lightweight, non-js using browsers like links.
>>
>> What are you doing in the interim? icecat with a set of extensions?
>> Or?
>>
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- Re: Recommendations for browsing via Tor pre tor-browser?, Christopher Lemmer Webber, 2018/07/19
- Re: Recommendations for browsing via Tor pre tor-browser?, Chris Marusich, 2018/07/19
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- Re: Recommendations for browsing via Tor pre tor-browser?,
Christopher Lemmer Webber <=