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Remove the need for Javascript. Tor-friendly (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by embaixadordaursal@lemmygrad.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Many sites like "Elude" work perfectly without javascript, allowing their use through tools to escape censorship such as Tor.

Why doesn't Lemmygrad implement this too?

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[–] Yujiri@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

While removing dependence on Javascript is noble for a variety of reasons, that... is not how honeypots work, nor does avoidance of Javascript really have anything to do with Tor.

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

nor does avoidance of Javascript really have anything to do with Tor.

Tor browser uses LTS firefox, is sometimes late with updates for bugs that don't seem critical and is mostly the same on every (OS, platform) pair. Disabling javascript makes successfully exploiting any existing bugs many magnitudes harder. (which is already quite hard at this point tbh)

[–] Yujiri@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah, Javascript is involved in many browser vulnerabilities, but Javascript can be executed on Tor just fine. The OP makes it sound like it can't which is what I was responding to.