Comment on Privacy researcher debunks Microsoft Edge’s free VPN marketing, says it's "NOT a VPN"

• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tor exit nodes are vulnerable to various levels of attacks.

  But it also doesn’t change the underlying problem. If you put ALL of your traffic through Tor? Cool. You have accomplished nothing (other than flagging yourself because of what exit nodes you are accessing from) because your cookies and even behavior are still being correlated.

  Like… it doesn’t take much to question why FightThePower_6969 looks at both /r/antifa101 AND /r/denver, for example. Ooh, and they also look at /r/warhammer40k and have a cookie from this website listing bus schedules and…

  I do agree that tor is an amazing (if problematic) tool and it is generally the gold standard for when you need to obfuscate traffic in a way that doesn’t involve giving mullivad your credit card number. But people still need to understand what traffic they are putting into each different port. And even realize that there are some truly nasty tracking methods out there that can do nasty stuff with even OS level DNS caching between browsers.

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  • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    You don’t have to give mullvad your credit card number though.

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