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minus-squarearanym@lemmy.namelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoUsing anything other than the official Tor Browser to access onion sites is sketchy and drastically reduces your anonymity (speaking as a former entry and exit node operator.) Is it open source?
minus-squareBora@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI don’t think this about your anonimity but rather theirs, plus the benefits of increased censorship resistance. I wrote about this in 2021: Tor, Practical Privacy, and Censorship Resistance
minus-squarearanym@lemmy.namelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI have since learned that it doesn’t access their onion service anyways, it apparently just goes back out to the clearweb
Using anything other than the official Tor Browser to access onion sites is sketchy and drastically reduces your anonymity (speaking as a former entry and exit node operator.) Is it open source?
I don’t think this about your anonimity but rather theirs, plus the benefits of increased censorship resistance.
I wrote about this in 2021: Tor, Practical Privacy, and Censorship Resistance
I have since learned that it doesn’t access their onion service anyways, it apparently just goes back out to the clearweb