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

submitted 6 months ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That would be a fail of the fingerprinting protection

It isn't.

A properly set up TOR browser for example should not allow that detection by any means.

Yes it should, through Javascript. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/26146#note_2649490

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a better source than a 5 y/o comment in an issue?

[–] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Trust me, I spent 3 years in the Tor community I know this shit, this thing comes up so often.

Alternatively: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/41610

[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 1 points 6 months ago

Blocking UA access via JS alone is not enough.