I use it sometimes. Startup takes a few seconds longer than normal Firefox and some websites take a bit longer to load.
On the other hand, there’s no way to track you. Useful for looking up medical info in a way that search engines and such can’t relate back to you. Often I’ll keep browsing in it once I’ve opened it because it’s just basically Firefox.
Running a Tor server is useful if you want to host a server on the internet but don’t want to deal with port forwarding and firewalls and such, but most people wouldn’t have a need for that.
On the other hand, there’s no way to track you. Useful for looking up medical info in a way that search engines and such can’t relate back to you. Often I’ll keep browsing in it once I’ve opened it because it’s just basically Firefox.
This is only true if you have the most “paranoid” security level selected, and at that point anything that relies on Javascript (or any of the other features that get blocked) will break. Enabling Javascript or the other blocked Web features will make it fairly trivial to track you especially the more you browse, so at that point you might as well just be using a regular VPN.
Tor itself isn’t the problem in this equation, it’s the browser, and they tend to leak information like a sieve
Even on standard settings, tracking companies like fingerprint.com fail to correlate your visits. The EFF’s (quite extensive) CoverYourTracks also fails to fingerprint the standard configuration. It helps a lot that <canvas> and WebGL access is denied by default and that the browser hides your screen resolution.
You can go ultra paranoid if you want to, but you don’t need to for normal trackers.
I use it sometimes. Startup takes a few seconds longer than normal Firefox and some websites take a bit longer to load.
On the other hand, there’s no way to track you. Useful for looking up medical info in a way that search engines and such can’t relate back to you. Often I’ll keep browsing in it once I’ve opened it because it’s just basically Firefox.
Running a Tor server is useful if you want to host a server on the internet but don’t want to deal with port forwarding and firewalls and such, but most people wouldn’t have a need for that.
This is only true if you have the most “paranoid” security level selected, and at that point anything that relies on Javascript (or any of the other features that get blocked) will break. Enabling Javascript or the other blocked Web features will make it fairly trivial to track you especially the more you browse, so at that point you might as well just be using a regular VPN.
Tor itself isn’t the problem in this equation, it’s the browser, and they tend to leak information like a sieve
Even on standard settings, tracking companies like fingerprint.com fail to correlate your visits. The EFF’s (quite extensive) CoverYourTracks also fails to fingerprint the standard configuration. It helps a lot that <canvas> and WebGL access is denied by default and that the browser hides your screen resolution.
You can go ultra paranoid if you want to, but you don’t need to for normal trackers.
Sure, it all depends on how paranoid you are, my point was more that saying someone is untrackable if they use Tor has a lot of caveats.
For the average pleb it’s probably fine, if all they’re doing is just trying to dodge regular trackers and not the authorities