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You can get around that if you search for link urls in archive sites. Someone usually will have archived the article there. If you feel a bit more ambitious y
by qualudeheart 5y ago
You can get around that if you search for link urls in archive sites.
Someone usually will have archived the article there.
If you feel a bit more ambitious you could make a bot that runs on a vps somewhere and automatically scrapes news articles.
- TooCleverByHalf 5y agoSure. But that's not the point.
- dredmorbius 5y agoTor seems to work reasonably well, except that many mainstream media sites block, throttle, or CAPTCHA it.
- pabs3 5y agoCombine Tor Browser with the archive.org/archive.is sites?
- dredmorbius 5y agoInternet Archive / Wayback Machine works. Archive.is runs Tor through a Cloudfront captcha which fails consistently in my experience.
- skissane 5y ago> Archive.is runs Tor through a Cloudfront captcha which fails consistently in my experience. Just tried it now and works for me. It is an annoying captcha, it had something like five steps to complete, but I've seen worse. I'd rather this captcha than the one that Roblox uses.
- Scoundreller 5y agoYou only get that far with JavaScript on. At that point, tor is like a hot pink tank. In theory safer than nothing, but standing out a lot.
- skissane 5y agoYes that's true. I had JavaScript on. I agree that turning on JavaScript with Tor is risky from a security viewpoint. It significantly increases the risk that your real identity may be unmasked.
- qualudeheart 5y agoYeah I like tor because the tor browser has built in fingerprinting protection. Otherwise you could use a privacy hardened firefox version along with some kinda proxy. I would say you could rent your own vps, use a vpn service that maintains their own servers, use a decentralized vpn (these are a new development) or just use someone else’s wifi that you don’t also use with your „real“ identity. Opsec can be hard to maintain but boy is doing so fun.
- hanniabu 5y agoHaven't heard of decentralized vpn yet, have any suggestions to look into?
- qualudeheart 5y agoTwo providers that I know of are Sentinel vpn and Mysterium vpn. They‘re like tor where anyone can run their own node, but unlike tor there is a financial incentive to run them because they come with built in payment processing solutions via cryptocurrencies. Some people are skeptical of cryptocurrencies but I consider this to be an excellent use case: Securing coordination between actors that don’t necessarily trust each other through market incentives. This would incentivize people to run their own nodes and it would be less like tor where most exit nodes are allegedly run by intelligence agencies.
- hanniabu 5y agoI suppose nothing is stopping nodes from logging activity from each ip address?
- qualudeheart 5y agoI don’t know. Maybe there’s a hash value for the code that you can look at to make sure it’s the right code. Haven’t personally looked into this.
- nuker 5y agoVPN plus incognito (private) browser window is easier than tor and roughly same protection level. That is for general use, not for hardcore anonymity.
- dredmorbius 5y agoHistory's shown that for numerous VPN providers that's not the case. Chief value of (public/general) VPNs seems to be 1) accessing region-zoned content or 2) protection against local-segment interception. The benefit of 2) is balanced against the fairly strong probability that the VPN provider itself is heavily surveilled or actively aiding in monitoring activities.
- qualudeheart 5y agoWith some vpn providers you can look them up in court records to see if there are any mentions of them keeping logs.
- xxs 5y agoThose youtube ads sure helped the VPN popularity. There is absolutely no reason to believe VPNs are even remotely secure.