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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by jerheinze on Friday June 01, 2018 @02:40PM (#17208618)
> You also get encryption while your traffic looks just the same as everybody else’s. You don’t stand out like when you’re using Tor.

Detecting WhatsApp usage is trivial. With Tor you can use pluggable transports to obfuscate your traffic.

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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by adrusi on Friday June 01, 2018 @02:59PM (#17208809)
But everyone and their cousin is a WhatsApp user, so using Whatsapp isn't suspicious.
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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by jerheinze on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:31PM (#17209164)
So the solution is to grow Tor usage, or use bridges with pluggable transports.
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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by vntok on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:07PM (#17211287)
No, using Whatsapp is a more efficient solution.
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