jerheinze

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by jerheinze 5y ago
The overwhelming majority of people don't customize their path selection in Tor, so you will always get traffic to your new guard node.
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by jerheinze 5y ago
> especially if you're the only one using it That's not how Tor nodes work. Once you setup a guard node (and it got enough reputation) you will NOT be the only person using it.
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by jerheinze 5y ago
> That only works if the attacker doesn't know the guard node is you. That's not how Tor nodes work. Once you setup a guard node (and it got enough reputation) you won't be the only person using the guard node. Also de-ano
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by jerheinze 5y ago
Instead of messing with your path selection a better strategy would be just run your own guard nodes that you trust (a guard node is the first node that you connect to in a Tor circuit) and to stick with them. Remember, de-anonymization att
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by jerheinze 5y ago
> Cross-platform sandboxing for Graphite, Hunspell, and Ogg is shipping in Firefox 95, while Expat and Woff2 will ship in Firefox 96. I wonder what the other "good candidates" that he referred to are.
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Qubes OS 4.1 RC2(qubes-os.org)
43 points by jerheinze 5y ago|1 comments
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Sioyek: PDF viewer designed for reading research papers and technical books(github.com)
2 points by jerheinze 5y ago|0 comments
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by jerheinze 5y ago
NewPipe is such a nice piece of FOSS. Too bad that they decided against integrating SponsorBlock.
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by jerheinze 5y ago
It's not just Chrome--all Chromium based browsers should be avoided if we don't want to end up with a single browser engine monopoly.
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LocalCDN: Browser Addon that locally emulates Content Delivery Networks(codeberg.org)
3 points by jerheinze 5y ago|0 comments
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You want Tor Browser ... not a VPN(matt.traudt.xyz)
2 points by jerheinze 5y ago|1 comments
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by jerheinze 5y ago
I think they might be checking against the online database, can you try to see if you replicate it offline? (if that's even possible)
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You Want Tor Browser – – – Not a VPN(matt.traudt.xyz)
5 points by jerheinze 5y ago|0 comments
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LocalCDN: Browser Addon that locally emulates Content Delivery Networks(codeberg.org)
2 points by jerheinze 5y ago|0 comments
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by jerheinze 5y ago
Thanks! For those who were wondering like me check: https://web.archive.org/web/20210320124929/https://github.co... https://web.archive.org/web/20210125171757/https://
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by jerheinze 5y ago
What was Barinsta? I couldn't find any information on that.
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V3 Tor Onion Services Usage(blog.torproject.org)
1 points by jerheinze 5y ago|0 comments
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by jerheinze 5y ago
Also try to alternate the instances, always solves it for me.
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The Endangered Internet Archive Is Full of Treasures(gizmodo.com)
56 points by jerheinze 5y ago|8 comments
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Invidious: An alternative front-end to YouTube(docs.invidious.io)
106 points by jerheinze 5y ago|52 comments
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by jerheinze 5y ago
A really useful tool for us folks who don't use smartphones, been using it for the last 5 years to have Signal-desktop without a smartphone. Can't thank the maintainer and contributors enough! https://ctrl.alt.coop&#x2F
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by jerheinze 6y ago
> I'd be much much happier to see the material kept in a more resilient configuration (IPFS, database dumps, ...) so that other entities can back it up. For IPFS have a look at https://libgen.fun/ and https:/&
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by jerheinze 6y ago
This is why you should always stick to the Tor Browser. See for instance the Tor Browser Design Doc (a bit outdated but still has a lot of info) for how much work they put to make sure that it stays as private as possible https:/&#x2F
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by jerheinze 6y ago
That's why I mentioned the Invidious project which is a YouTube frontend. Also solving the ReCaptcha is for most of us not an insurmountable task, it's definitely worth the cost if you want some real privacy.
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by jerheinze 6y ago
Using YouTube with Firefox Containers is in no way anonymous. Instead try to use it with the Tor Browser (also checkout the Invidious project).
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Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS(freeread.org)
281 points by jerheinze 6y ago|111 comments
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by jerheinze 6y ago
TLS alone is not sufficient. Fortunately, Github is also on the HSTS preload list.
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by jerheinze 6y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/2020/https://blog.torproject.org... should work.
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by jerheinze 6y ago
You can use pluggable transports to camouflage your traffic (they're already built into the Tor Browser, e.g. meek, snowflake, ...). To get Tor in the first place in a censored/risky place you can get it from the official GetTorBr
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by jerheinze 6y ago
Tor is still the king of low-latency anonymity systems.

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