Tor is ritualized security that just makes things slower without really gaining you much privacy.
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what is a better way to browse privately?
What alternatives do you suggest? Trusting the ISP? Blind relay and an exit node? I sure do not want some fucks to know my online activity. From my experience, it is practically impossible to setup an ISP service anonymously.
There are millions of more effective ways to track someone outside of ip based tracking, which isn’t even the most effective thing.
There are hundreds of data streams tied to you, like attention based algorithms that monitor how long you look at things to build a profile on you.
the idea that hiding your nostr ip footprint is going to do shit all for your privacy is laughable.
Hot take, i like it 🤙
I would argue it’s not really possible on modern devices. Almost all apps are tracking you. I would destroy my phone and move into the woods
It's one of the things. Not end be all solution. Fingerprinting can also be avoided by separating one's online activity: KYC stuff on different browser/IP/device, anonymous services on different stack.
VPNs are better imo.
probably, but not that much better when all your apps are rooted anyways
Bruh.
Really depends on what you are trying to do
Which is why adding noise to the client in the background should be implemented
It certainly isn't if you just give in and run a bunch of proprietary and abusive software.
It's better to try to resist surveillance than to laugh at those who try. Many people don't limit themselves to using Tor; there are plenty of ways, if not to get rid of surveillance, then at least to make it harder for the algorithms of corps. And for Nostr, if someone really want to be anonymous, there is 
Anonostr | Anonymous Nostr Client
Send anonymous notes to the Nostr network with Anonostr. Each note submission generates a new key pair that
I mostly agree
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Used it for little and besides wasting my time with verifications, I never trusted it to be any different from Firefox or Brave or Opera in matters of control, just in those of covering the guilty pleasures of elites.
I have a buddy that has 2 phones
A normie phone
And a privacy phone
GraphineOS or whatever it is …
And he doesn’t use apps on it really
Does most stuff through browser.
Only 2 legit OPSEC assumptions:
1) All your stuff is compromised;
2) Apart from point 1, never assume anything.
yeah my privacy setup would be: grapheneos, don't use apps, a custom dns server on wireguard that blocks analytics, plus a wireguard node to bounce traffic through.
even then i wouldn't be confident I still couldn't be tracked.
yea, cause incentive to run exit nodes waz too close to zero
its not laughing at those who try, its about talking about what is effective and what isn't.
And you don't know what is effective.
Tbh Tor is only needed if you are fighting a state-level adversary. Other than that it sucks.
Just create a long range wifi antenna (you can make them yourself quite easily) and point it at a dense housing area/tower. Hack the wifi networks and you have your (free), anonimous connection. Pop on a VPN and you are golden.
Privacy-apps without mixnets are simply ineffective. Privacy is a chain throughout all layers.
Tor is not a tool for privacy protection. It's meant to anonymize the traffic for rather niche operations. A person who's accessing his online accounts through Tor is not getting any benefits from it unless the accounts have been created anonymously and can't be tied to the person to begin with.
correct
wdym "not much" privacy. There is no better privacy.