From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Lemmer Webber Subject: Re: Recommendations for browsing via Tor pre tor-browser? Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:24:19 -0400 Message-ID: <87h8kvi47g.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <87zhywl72t.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20180719090805.r6dmvytsm73tgytp@kowloon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45198) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fgBj5-0007iQ-Np for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:24:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fgBj2-0003Xi-LU for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:24:23 -0400 Received: from dustycloud.org ([50.116.34.160]:53686) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fgBj2-0003XR-FI for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:24:20 -0400 In-reply-to: <20180719090805.r6dmvytsm73tgytp@kowloon> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Devan Carpenter Cc: help-guix 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? >>