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Re:Tor Browser: a legacy of advancing private browsing innov... by brnt on Saturday January 29, 2022 @02:28AM (#30124521)
Unzipping a random file into your privacy browser? Sometimes I really don't get these people. Feels like my neighbour who's antivax mostly because she ended up in that part of cyberspace where pharmacology can only do wrong. People overrate their own DIY alternatives.
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Re:Tor Browser: a legacy of advancing private browsing innov... by 3np on Saturday January 29, 2022 @03:32AM (#30124770)
What are you talking about?

The ghacks link is laying out some env vars and config values one can change.

Librewolf is a set of FF patches (which you can build yourself if you’d actually been corncerned about that vector)

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Re:Tor Browser: a legacy of advancing private browsing innov... by commoner on Saturday January 29, 2022 @04:57AM (#30125148)
The original link (https://www.ghacks.net/2018/11/26/can-you-use-the-tor-browse...) is to a comment in the Ghacks article's comment section made by "Tor11.0 NetworkDisabled". The "Beginner" instructions in the comment do tell us to download a .zip file from Dropbox or ufile.io and unzip it into the Tor Browser folder, which is a little sketchy. The "Advanced" instructions are okay.
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Re:Tor Browser: a legacy of advancing private browsing innov... by brnt on Saturday January 29, 2022 @04:18AM (#30124975)
Those steps are right there in the post you link?
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Re:Tor Browser: a legacy of advancing private browsing innov... by nix23 on Saturday January 29, 2022 @04:32AM (#30125041)
You can use google, so you don't depend that every link has all the information you need.
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Re:Tor Browser: a legacy of advancing private browsing innov... by 3np on Saturday January 29, 2022 @04:47AM (#30125104)
I didn't link nothin'.
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Re:Tor Browser: a legacy of advancing private browsing innov... by brnt on Saturday January 29, 2022 @09:55AM (#30126738)
The post I replied to, which has disappeared in the meantime. The ghacks link.
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