VPNs have a solid use case, though of course cannot provide the anonymity of the Tor Browser. The article actually does a pretty good job of laying out the pros and cons of each, so it’s a little disappointing that the title is so click-baity and oversimplifying.
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The article actually does a pretty good job of laying out the pros and cons of each
indeed, I hope people actually take the time to read stuff.
No… I don’t. I can’t stand when this clickbaity article gets reposted because as is the case of most articles, the headline is read and the nuanced discussion within the article isn’t. For many people, a VPN is more suited to our needs than Tor Browser.
For many people, a VPN is more suited to our needs than Tor Browser.
my (genuine and interested) question would be: why?
a) I torrent a LOT.
b) I play video games sometimes, one in particular that unfortunately has a lot of script kiddies who enjoy posting peoples’ IP address/city/etc.
For a) and b), a VPN is very good to have. Torrenting should be more popular and by normalizing the use of VPNs, it cuts down one barrier to piracy that usually is a barrier when a person doesn’t already use a VPN. Video games without dedicated servers are sadly getting more common, so a VPN is also useful for that.
these use cases are acknowledged in the article, the argument the author makes is about other use cases which are arguably more common than yours.
I know, and my issue is that the author’s clickbaity title is just plain silly given the fact that he pretty much backpedals deep into the article. It’s just needlessly misleading.
I live in a country that blocks Tor and it doesn’t work at all without bridges. Now, I’m not sure whether the ISP can detect me using tor even with bridges (would be good to get some clarification on that) but I don’t want to put a target on my back by accident.
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I understand the privacy aspects of TOR, and I fully support the idea of the TOR Browser, but holy jumped-up jesus on a birch-bark canoe is it fucking slow…
When it takes, on average, almost five minutes for ANY webpage I try to access to load, that’s just not a useable browser, imho. This is 2022, not 1995.
when did you last use it? it hasn’t been that way for me in ages.
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I use it often and it doesn’t really seem slow to me.
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In case you don’t already know, Firefox with a separate Tor connection is easier to fingerprint than an unmodified Tor Browser (unless you’ve configured Firefox to camouflage as TB)
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It breaks websites? Are you talking about the experimental fingerprinting protection in Firefox? By “fingerprinting”, I meant the general tracking of unique properties of your browser (settings, add-ons, user agents, etc.), not the Firefox-specific anti-fingerprinting.
I agree that Tor is better in many situations.
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Do you have a link to a guide for setting that up? I know that I can right-click on a link to open as a container. But would be cool to see how to try a setup like you have.
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Thanks for the info! I am using Windows, but I downloaded the extension and tor zip for advanced Windows on their site. Created a torrc file and set it to the localhost:9050 and created a “tor” container. And just tested it with the check.torproject.org site (both with a normal tab and a “tor” container tab) with success! Good to know random things that might be very worth knowing.
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Wow that’s digusting. Can’t you opt out?
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