Using Tor Browser with anything but its ootb configuration defeats the whole point, so... no
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I slightly disagree. Adding addons and stuff does defeat the whole point, but Tor comes out of the box with JS enabled, and disabling JS makes life better for Tor users.
i do
i use tor not for anonymity but for privacy from my isp. Where i live, they're legally obliged to keep a record of all my connections.
and i use uBlock to filter all 3rd party connections, annoyances, ads &c.
Wouldnt a vpn do the job but give faster speed?
tor is fast enough for browser use
vpn too has its place for privacy. i don't need to choose one. good to have choices for different conditions :)
Don't use plugins or customize the Tor browser, because it makes you stand out from the crowd. The point is to have everyone's browser look exactly the same to fingerprinters.
Meaning it's more or less the only situation where you jve to suffer through the ads ^__^ Which could me used to deliver malware to you? 🧐
It's a fair concern. I usually run the Tor browser in a VM to limit the potential damage.
Doesn't Tor on Tails come with ublock origin ? I don't get why Tor doesn't come with it preinstalled too
That is correct. Tor Browser on Tails comes with uBlock Origin. It might be that DDG (or some other financial supporters) are not happy if the Tor Project ships TB with uBlock. There are many things to be blocked by uB even on DDG, Brave, MetaGer, etc. (although obviously they are much less invasive than you-know-what search engines). Purely privacy-wise they're annoying of course. But understandably they do need to monetize something to provide search engines, and I think some of them are financially supporting the Tor Project too, or they're helping each other, so... I don't know. Just a guess.
Isn't it like Mozilla has to be nice to Google? Ultimately, doesn't this mean that end users are not making enough donations? People say privacy and freedom are important, but normal people really don't like to pay for these important things, like assuming libre is like free beer!
I do, but I keep default settings within Ublock. I figure theres probably enough other Tor users using Ublock that it won't stand out too much, and frankly, the internet feels unusable without an ad blocker nowdays.
My question is why isn't ublock installed by default
It is on mullvad browser which is a joint project between Tor and mullvad. At this point I think it's just historical inertia preventing ublock origin from running inside the tor browser bundle by default.
I do, though I only use Tor to keep my ISP, and by extention my country, from learning which sites I visit. As such, it is of little concern to me, if the website I'm visiting can fingerprint me.
Only tailsOS is worth doing this safely.
Yes because the internet without ublock origin is straight up unusable for me lol
Yes. If I don't, browsing the average page over the Tor network can take minutes for it to fully load. With uBO, the same page might take at most a minute to load. It's all the tracking garbage that gets shoveled down the link these days. All things being equal with the Tor Browser Bundle, all the tracking crap adds up to a fairly large volume of data being downloaded across an overlay network connection with fairly limited bandwidth.
Affecting the fingerprint defeats the purpose.
yes, ublock origin is a must have to make the internet work for me.
so my school chromebook blocks ublock origin
anyway I was browsing the internet normally at school yesterday
i kept getting those weird temu banner ads with the dildos and shit
i reported the ad, clicked it was inappropriate MULTIPLE TIMES, and I KEPT GETTING IT, EXCEPT EVEN MORE OFTEN!