Topic: Tor Browser tips/help? (Read 748 times)

Get a VPN.

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Tor is still much safer. Does hidemyass.com log your IPs and what sites you've viewed?

I don't would recommend you to go pure tor.

With tor you can anonymously read if the urls that you open do not contain or lead to any of your personal details.
-> http://website.tld/?username=personaldetail&password=myverysecretpassword

With tor you can anonymously chat if that what you write in the chat does not contain any personal details.
-> $user: "Hello Mario, this is Mr. Personal Detail"


What you can't do with tor:

-> Always login anonymously into a https:// website.
Bad tor exit nodes probably can MITM the connection and save your login credentials and every data that you exchange with the server.
So I would never do online banking with tor for example.

-> Tor is good for the stuff mentioned at the beginning of this post and for example for journalists reporting from countries where a war is happening. They could register and write mails anonymously if at the same time they use fictional username/password combinations. The informations that their emails contain may be catched but their identity would be save if they do not mention any of them in their mails.


Its good to use tor whenever its possible.
Its not always good to always use tor.
If someone ever would like to spy on you its still possible also if you use tor.
If you use tor it makes it just a lot more expensive and therefore not practical useful to spy on everybody at the same time.
Find a good mix for your surf behavior to protect as much of your personal right of privacy as possible.
If you protect your personal right of privacy you also help to protect democracy.

You will get exactly what you want here :
hidemyass.com     

Tor is slow. You'll soon get frustrated with it if you use it for your entire browsing.

Looks like I've got some money to make then thanks

It IS easier to get a VPN because I didn't find any way to import my bookmarks etc from the Chrome. There is also a problem with Bitcointalk sometimes - it won't give you a permission to post since you're using Tor.
All in all there is not much to advice here - Tor is not complicated at all.

So I take it a number of you here are using things like the Tor Browser to get around a lot of bullshit involved with websites tracking your I.P address and trying to farm personal information, well I've decided now I'm going to see if I can go pure Tor, I suspect that it will be impossible on some sites because they'll scream at me like the Google search engine does to turn off whatever weirdness I have but fuck it, I'm tired of my ISP ( Virgin Media ) tracking my activity on our LAN and behaving weirdly.

Do you guys know of things like password managers and a way to import all my stuff from firefox into tor? Any tips for a newbie would be helpful and should be of help to anyone else who's tired of the automated tracking like I am, looking at Tor Browser though, it may be just easier in the long run to get a VPN and use that.