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Re: If you value Tor, please make a donation

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I tried contributing all of my $40 worth of Brave BAT currency (earned from ads) via contribution button in Brave. However it seems I can not as i'm treated with the following message: "This creator is unable to receive contributions from Gemini"

Re: If you value Tor, please make a donation

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post #3

I tried contributing all of my $40 worth of Brave BAT currency (earned from ads) via contribution button in Brave. However it seems I can not as i'm treated with the following message: "This creator is unable to receive contributions from Gemini"

According to https://donate.torproject.org/cryptocurrency/ it doesn't seem like they support BAT at all.

Re: If you value Tor, please make a donation

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post #4
post #3

I tried contributing all of my $40 worth of Brave BAT currency (earned from ads) via contribution button in Brave. However it seems I can not as i'm treated with the following message: "This creator is unable to receive contributions from Gemini"

According to https://donate.torproject.org/cryptocurrency/ it doesn't seem like they support BAT at all.

Fair enough. I tried.

Re: If you value Tor, please make a donation

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> charitable giving from individuals from the U.S. decreased by 10.5% Well you see it's been a rough year for the CIA, all of their budget is tied up on monitoring the situation in Ukraine so they had to cut some corners.

And now they also have to split some for more for the middle east. Sigh…

Re: If you value Tor, please make a donation

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post #2

I was going to leave a comment on the linked page that a link to the project's budget should be prominent. I couldn't, because to do so, I had to either login via discord or github. Seems a bit ironic.

It looks to me like you can create a standalone account with an email address and password?

Re: If you value Tor, please make a donation

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On iOS, Tor used to recommend using the Onion browser (they probably still do, I haven't checked). Some time ago, the onion browser changed how it connects to the Tor network to use Orbot instead of connecting directly.

I can not help but see this as a malicious change.

Orbot directs all traffic from my phone through the Tor network. If an iPhone is secretly pinging some backend server for telemetry / looking for automatic updates / etc, then all those pings will now happen from the Tor exit node, effectively completely deanonymizing the user.

It's a trivial matter for an adversarial agent to ask apple for lists of all hits from a specifc tor exit node and identifying information from that user, and cross check that against whatever traffic they are trying to deanonymize.

I might be misinformed here, but I would love to be corrected about why anyone should trust Tor enough to access it from an iPhone anymore.

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