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Tor is ritualized security that just makes things slower without really gaining you much privacy.
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Hurly · 12w
what is a better way to browse privately?
ManyKeys · 12w
What alternatives do you suggest? Trusting the ISP? Blind relay and an exit node? I sure do not want some fucks to know my online activity. From my experience, it is practically impossible to setup an ISP service anonymously.
jb55 · 12w
There are millions of more effective ways to track someone outside of ip based tracking, which isn’t even the most effective thing. There are hundreds of data streams tied to you, like attention based algorithms that monitor how long you look at things to build a profile on you. the idea that h...
Erik · 12w
Hot take, i like it πŸ€™
TKay · 12w
VPNs are better imo.
Daedalus · 12w
Bruh.
Alex Budaev · 12w
It's better to try to resist surveillance than to laugh at those who try. Many people don't limit themselves to using Tor; there are plenty of ways, if not to get rid of surveillance, then at least to make it harder for the algorithms of corps. And for Nostr, if someone really want to be anonymous, ...
RogueHashrate · 12w
I mostly agree
bogdnk ⚑️ · 12w
Bs
Simetra · 12w
Used it for little and besides wasting my time with verifications, I never trusted it to be any different from Firefox or Brave or Opera in matters of control, just in those of covering the guilty pleasures of elites.
Tim · 12w
Only 2 legit OPSEC assumptions: 1) All your stuff is compromised; 2) Apart from point 1, never assume anything.
cloud fodder · 12w
yea, cause incentive to run exit nodes waz too close to zero
AWittyUser · 12w
Tbh Tor is only needed if you are fighting a state-level adversary. Other than that it sucks.
Aigars · 12w
Tor is not a tool for privacy protection. It's meant to anonymize the traffic for rather niche operations. A person who's accessing his online accounts through Tor is not getting any benefits from it unless the accounts have been created anonymously and can't be tied to the person to begin with.
qwe · 12w
wdym "not much" privacy. There is no better privacy.