That’s not what I was talking about. The Tor network (onion routing) is a totally separate thing. Tor as an application has very good anti fingerprint protections. I was referring to that feature specifically not the rest of Tor.
Sure if you really wanna benefit, use Tor’s routing. But I am just admiring that the people that built Tor really knew what they were doing in all aspects of the application including the anti fingerprint protections.
Also get ready to throw your credit cards in the trash. They are tracking you. And while you’re at it, might as well throw away your computer.
I wonder if you don’t actually use tor but use their version of Firefox if you still get their anti fingerprint benefits, or if being one of the few tor users not using tor makes you too unique.
I found tor did a very good job of blending you into other tor traffic. But you are only as unique as 1 out of the total number of tor users.
I don’t really know what I’m talking about tbh, but my understanding is the more unique you make yourself, the easier you are to identify. For example, as soon as you use an ad blocker, your browser fingerprint becomes less unique because your average person doesn’t use an ad blocker. Even fewer people use Tor. So if someone knows you are using Tor, then they know you are 1 of maybe 100,000 people instead of millions (idk if those numbers are accurate, but you get the point).
That being said, Tor does do a pretty good job of making you blend into all the other Tor users.
But what I was talking about initially was mostly your ISP identifying your Tor traffic. So you use a VPN, but again you are now more unique than someone not using a VPN, even if your traffic is more encrypted.
Yo chat, we’re cooked
I spent a lot of time early in my career working on some UI component libraries that I ultimately deemed a failure. However, I learned a lot from that. I’ve found that as I’ve settled into a more senior dev role, it’s become harder for me to experiment.
What I’m trying to say is that best case, you come up with something cool, and worst case, you learn from your mistakes and apply what you learned to the next project!
Best to sell it. Since you use Tor you’re probably already on a watchlist
It’s not dead! I make Apple intelligent proofread what I write. 🤓
…but yeah, I’ve completely forgotten how to proofread.
Good to know, thanks! Likely I will setup a few accounts to test my client with multiple instances.
I’m working on my own lemmy client that will support keyword filtering on both web and in the app. Still need a couple months before it’s ready for beta testing.
New account because in the process of working with the lemmy API, I’ve realized how many API versions the world instance lags behind.
I use neovim mostly just so I can say "I use neovim" cause why else would any sane person relearn how to type. I've never used emacs, but this is a very nice explanation.