Re:A Potential Privacy Model for the Web
by sanbor on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @11:13AM
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With JS and cookies disabled and using a VPN you can get a decent browsing experience without tor slowness and blocks. At least your browsing is mixed with thousand people.
Re:A Potential Privacy Model for the Web
by pdimitar on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @11:19AM
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Sure. But lately I keep hearing that these users are implicitly under attack by constantly requiring them to fill CAPTCHAs.
Which is the advantage of implementing it by default in common browsers. Sites can afford to neglect the experience of the 1% of users who are using Tor but not the 80% of users who have installed the latest browsers.
I haven't experienced any captcha so far. I did when using tor.
Even with all JS and cookies disabled, servers can still collect your IP and infer if it is indeed you visiting by analysing your usual visit times -- and likely a lot more other metrics.
Unless the browsers use Tor-like visitor source obfuscation, I don't see anything changing in favour of privacy.