Open a New Private Window or Tab with Tor

code3

@luetage Yes, but if your screen size, browser, fonts installed, cookies, canvas fingerprint, and other things change daily, wouldn’t it be hard to fingerprint you?

code3

@dude99 on my computer - Linux - the tor service started always running in the background as soon as I installed it (sudo apt install tor) so no need to do that, but it could be different on yours. I can’t guarantee absolute anonymity but it should make it hard for the companies to track you, as long as you turn ad and tracker blocker on and limit cookies and fingerprinting. You could set cookies to auto clear and save your passwords.

Zalex108

@code3 said in Open a New Private Window or Tab with Tor:

@dude99 on my computer - Linux - the tor service started always running in the background as soon as I installed it (sudo apt install tor) so no need to do that, but it could be different on yours. I can’t guarantee absolute anonymity but it should make it hard for the companies to track you, as long as you turn ad and tracker blocker on and limit cookies and fingerprinting. You could set cookies to auto clear and save your passwords.

"Recently" tracking by Favicons was discovered.

You would like to check it as well.

code3

@Zalex108 So fav icons are not routed through a proxy? Do I need to block them?

Zalex108

@code3 said in Open a New Private Window or Tab with Tor:

@Zalex108 So fav icons are not routed through a proxy? Do I need to block them?

Proxy?

Favicons tracking

code3

@Zalex108 said in Open a New Private Window or Tab with Tor:

@code3 said in Open a New Private Window or Tab with Tor:

@Zalex108 So fav icons are not routed through a proxy? Do I need to block them?

Proxy?

Favicons tracking

I read the post, but is it actually a concern? (Tor is treated as a proxy by chromium, if the favicons are routed through the proxy it should be fine.)

code3

@luetage I have looked into this more and it seems that I could still be uniquely identifiable using Tor in Vivaldi, but maybe not if I use fingerprinting extensions. I have tried Tor browser but Vivaldi is just SO much nicer to use.

The best fingerprinter I have found is a paid proprietary service which shows quite a lot about online privacy: https://fingerprintjs.com/

You must delete cache to fool it.

I still think that using Tor in Vivaldi on sites I do not trust is worth it because an IP address is very identifiable on a home network.

Apparently Brave’s implementation of Tor had a DNS leak and is not very good. I also don’t like it to be only for private windows as I prefer to save browsing history and cache and cookies (which J delete automatically later)

Because Knowledge is Power I also have an extension for fingerprint warning:
https://github.com/ghostwords/chameleon
It is old so it would be great to hear of another one.

For some fingerprint prevention I use ScriptSafe, for WebRTC and others I use Trace, for fonts, “Block all font and glyph detection” extension.

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For anyone using Tor in V please make sure you block WebRTC!

code3