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The Tor Project is switching to Rust

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348 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 12 Dec 25 12:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ekjhgkejhgk ◴[12 Dec 25 14:55 UTC] No.46244716[source]▶
OT on Tor:

Recently this link was on HN[1]. It ranks your browser on regular tracking and fingerprinting separately. "Tor without JS" was the only option I found to be completely fingerprint resistant. Even Tor "with JS on strict settings" ranked it as only "partly fingerprint resistant". (Interestingly firefox without JS never returns)

Scary stuff.

I'd like to hear other people's experiences/experiments here.

[1] https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

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mawadev ◴[12 Dec 25 15:42 UTC] No.46245164[source]▶
You can even track people by favicon which bypasses incognito mode. Another part is hiding font urls in css with more tracking...
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mr_mitm ◴[12 Dec 25 15:58 UTC] No.46245330[source]▶
Was incognito mode ever meant to prevent tracking? I thought it was for porn, I mean buying surprise presents on a shared computer.
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1. sharperguy ◴[12 Dec 25 16:05 UTC] No.46245420[source]▶
it's commonly used for checking how sites look when not logged in, without logging out, or logging in as another user temporarily.