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There are two issues with this: - Part of the protection Tor provides is due to having the single browser made specifically for Tor. Nearly everyone uses it; t
by orbital-decay 3y ago
There are two issues with this:
- Part of the protection Tor provides is due to having the single browser made specifically for Tor. Nearly everyone uses it; this gives you a sufficiently large crowd to blend into. There are fingerprintable clusters inside this crowd, but at least they are still large enough. By using any other browser, you make yourself stand out and even diminish the anonymity of the whole network a tiny bit. This can become a problem if enough people are using custom browsers. Brave in particular is also not restricted enough by default (no JS etc). Default settings for everyone matter.
- Brave's Tor feature wasn't thoroughly tested in real situations. AFAIK they had issues with it, and also warned users not to rely on it as it's not complete.
- Grimburger 3y ago> Brave in particular is also not restricted enough by default While I'm in agreeance with everything you've said it should be pointed out that Tor Browser doesn't ship with JS disabled either, it simply breaks so much of the web that they've concluded it's not reasonable for a browser to do by default if they want to attract new users.
- bombcar 3y agoBrave even tells you not to use Tor if it's a life/death matter, but for general "poor-man's VPN" it's just fine.
- DANmode 3y ago> Brave's Tor feature wasn't thoroughly tested in real situations Meanwhile, we know for certain that Firefox has played a role in multiple deanonymizations.
- orbital-decay 3y agoIf you mean Tor Browser then of course, as it's the only widely used browser in the Tor network. It's still the most tested option, and is paired with reference Tor implementation, which is more complete than Brave's.