The Tor Project is switching to Rust

Re:The Tor Project is switching to Rust by flipped on Saturday December 13, 2025 @01:05AM (#46252431)

Onions are extremely fast and for the level of anonymity they provide, it's an amazing advancement. It's surprising that Reddit has kept their onion in working condition given their poor attempts (a very bad TLS fingerprinting for all redlib instances) recently to shutdown redlib instances.

Tails ships Tor browser with ublock but the Tor browser team doesn't want to for simple reason: fingerprinting. I use ublock too but I feel like majority still don't and disabling javascript alltogether is still the most secure way.

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Re:The Tor Project is switching to Rust by mhitza on Saturday December 13, 2025 @09:05AM (#46254577)

> Tor browser team doesn't want to for simple reason: fingerprinting.

I don't understand this given reason. If they package in uBlock origin across their desktop and android browser. Then everybody will have uBlock origin so the same fingerprint. If the reasons are different subscriptions lists that users might enable/disable, sure that's fingerprintable, just make a disclaimer about that if users want to modify the default lists.

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Re:The Tor Project is switching to Rust by flipped on Saturday December 13, 2025 @12:42PM (#46256333)

As much as I agree with it, they see it as another maintenance headache and unnecessary attack surface. NoScript is the only extension which they've been shipping since quite a while.

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