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Forgive my pedantry but it's not TOR[1] and never was, this is bordering on painful to read. [1]: https://support.torproject.org/#about_why-is-it-called-tor

>The captcha page looks like cloudflare, but I don't think they're using cloudflare, haha. That's amazing, I never bothered to take a look once I saw that page but I did just now, …

Interesting read. I've thought about this for a while. My woes with the site is that my connection to any of the clearnet domains seem to get black holed, or completely blocked by …

>I think you misread me. I said the Tor browser does help here. My bad, you're right! That shows my bias when it comes to this topic, way too much FUD.

Yes.

>unless you enjoy solving captchas as a hobby it is only worth using when you actually need some anonymity. Use services that respect your freedom. Hacker News works just fine usin…

>Tor itself is full of scams and dark markets selling who knows what. Did you forget to read the article? They make the point that this is not the case. Tor Browser can be used to …

No it wouldn't. You can use difficult to obtain cookies or registration to prevent bots.

I use Tor for everything that doesn't require identification, and I use very few of those services. For example, this HN account and the email for it have never been used without c…

>Personally for me it is about the traffic that may be routed through my computer by the Tor network No traffic is routed through your computer by using Tor, running a relay is a c…

Whonix builds on much stronger concepts than Tails, as malware with root privileges cannot discover the users real IP address since it simply is not aware of it. It uses an interna…

Whonix: A High Security Method of Surfing the Internet Whonix is a desktop operating system designed for advanced security and privacy. Whonix mitigates the threat of common attack…

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Ads can be blocked on mobile devices with NewPipe[1], or Invidious[2], alternatively Firefox which supports uBlock[3] on Android. [1]: https://newpipe.net/ [2]: https://invidious.i…

Ah. I was forgetting people use locked down devices where content blocking isn't possible, or a hassle.

>and submitted to 4chan via Tor or a VPN. 4chan blocks both Tor and VPNs. It's a terrible place to leak things, but a hacker can most probably find innocuous IPs.

So have I because of invidious[1]. [1]: https://docs.invidious.io/instances/

>YouTube premium was probably the best decision I did. Amount of time saved on ads alone makes it worth it. Why do you get ads? I don't understand how there are people on Hacker Ne…

Increasingly, the amount of CSAM being created is by children themselves. > Of the 153,369 webpages actioned during 2020, almost half (68,000 or 44%) were assessed as containing se…

You gotta love it when a site called "techfreedom" black holes Tor exit node IPs. I can only access this site through web proxies.

>If you think your traffic is not being monitored over Tor, then you have thought incorrectly. Tor exit nodes can only monitor traffic for a very short period of time, you create a…

> Otherwise even if we (HN audience) switch This is a problem. Even the HN audience seems to struggle greatly in choosing non-proprietary and privacy friendly solutions. While the …

It probably goes along the lines of: "It is impossible to download and examine iOS's source code, which means that it is impossible to prove that iOS is not spyware. Any program wh…