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Extensions like this make users more fingerprintable so that kind of defeats half the stated purpose of using a commercial VPN. They also weaken the browser's s
by Seirdy 5y ago
Extensions like this make users more fingerprintable so that kind of defeats half the stated purpose of using a commercial VPN. They also weaken the browser's security model, which is part of the reason why Tor users are told to never install addons.
- jzelinskie 5y agoPrivacyPass is not your average extension. It's got a strong basis in applied cryptographic research and was designed to solve the captcha problem in a safe way for tor. It's now later been adopted by both cloudflare and google, so I'm pretty sure it's well vetted.
- Seirdy 5y agoNone of this changes the fact that using it makes users fingerprintable.