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Re:No-JavaScript Fingerprinting by gtsop on Monday February 07, 2022 @01:52AM (#30241214)
Wait, but the case for TOR isn't to hide you are using TOR, but to blend in with the crowd of TOR users. Does my TOR browser give a different fingerprint than yours?
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Re:No-JavaScript Fingerprinting by cookiengineer on Monday February 07, 2022 @04:32AM (#30242359)
The IPs of TOR exit nodes are publicly known. I'm not sure people using TOR are aware of how the concept and peer discovery mechanism works.

I mean, at some point you gotta ask yourself why cloudflare shows all TOR users a captcha in a targeted manner :)

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Re:No-JavaScript Fingerprinting by coma_ on Monday February 07, 2022 @07:52AM (#30244109)
> I mean, at some point you gotta ask yourself why cloudflare shows all TOR users a captcha in a targeted manner :)

Because exit node IP address' are known, you have just said it.

How does it have anything to do with user fingerprinting? And how does it answer the question of @gtsop asking whether different users of ToR web browser have different distinguishable fingerprint or not?

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Re:No-JavaScript Fingerprinting by jokethrowaway on Monday February 07, 2022 @05:58AM (#30243060)
the browser fingerprint may be software / hardware dependant

TOR will hide your IP to interested parties (unless they have NSA resources / can buy a good part of the TOR network)

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