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Today I got greeted on a Tor friendly website (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It was at the Securedrop website. How did I end up there ? I read something about Sequoia and encryption and then wanted to see what Securedrop entailed.

Meanwhile I've raised the security settings. Still, today someone in this community (?) mentioned that Tor browser does not protect the remote to check for the OS, and now this. Color me surprised.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (11 children)

How comes my useragent is Linux then? I just installed it fresh trom the arch official repos for the first time to test. Creepjs shows the useragent further down (not in this screenshot) and I visited other test sites as well.

I'll test it tomorrow by downloading it from the website.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Here some proof of my claim that Tor browser useragent string is Windows : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox/Privacy#Change_user_agent_and_platform

Tip:

The value Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0 is used as the user agent for the Tor browser, thus being very common.

From five years ago, afaik suggesting Windows is the default : https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/26146

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

~~Tor browser from the arch repos is not stock torbrowser. Add repos for torproject/guardian project/whatever it's called now, or use the torproject.org installer.~~

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yes it is. Since what the arch repos have is a script to download TB from torproject.org

Add repos for torproject/guardian project/whatever it’s called now, or use the torproject.org installer.

You're thinking of F-Droid (on Android), at least that is what the Guardian Project repo is for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks for the correction.

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