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a great post that was published a few years ago on Matt Traudt's blog with some tips for people using Tor and the Tor Browser.

it also addresses common misconceptions like disabling JS and using fingerprinting tests, which unfortunately I see floating around every other day on the internet.

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[–] fishonthenet@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I will start by saying that the author of the article was a tor researcher and dev so this gives some context on the content and me posting this.

which is a very risky thing to do for someone not familiar

may I ask why? I generally agree with the sentiment of the article but I don't have a very strong opinion on this and maybe I'm missing something.

PS I don't think the usual "I will end up in a list of people who use Tor" argument is a valid one.

Preferring JavaScript stay disabled is a better choice, the next best is only allowing JavaScript when needed momentarily.

I disagree with this, it's simply overkill for 99% of the people with arguably no benefit at all. what's there to gain?