From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Do not use tor with browsers other than tor browser
Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 21:42:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvdhm28l.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861s0m21eb.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Vong's message of "Sat, 25 May 2019 19:56:28 +0800")
Hi,
Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> 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’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-26 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-25 11:56 Do not use tor with browsers other than tor browser Alex Vong
2019-05-25 16:43 ` Raghav Gururajan
2019-05-25 21:16 ` oury.dustin
2019-05-26 6:38 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-05-26 2:39 ` Mike Gerwitz
2019-05-26 19:42 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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