It always confused me why our police cars were green, when they were blue in the movies, until I learned that the movies came from a different country. Nowadays police cars are blue, though. Same with police uniforms. Used to be green, now they are blue. Looks like the movies won.

I kind of meant not to run any browser or if so avoid javascript. but... Lynx?

for safety, Lynx doesn't support Javascript, but many web sites, including dark net ones, idiotically require javascript.

Links...?

Lynx and elinks does not support JavaScript, but Links does: sudo apt-get install links then to compile Links with JavaScript support, use the configure option --enable-javascript ... etc

https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/11678/text-based-browser-that-runs-javascript

I would avoid the javascript entirely if possible, or use a remote proxy doing all the javascript and rerendering back through tor to your location

Thank you!!!!!!

This is quite brazen of them.

Some of it might be laziness of checking out mods to chrome source they depend on, rather than their possibly obfuscated source alterations.

No way to tell probably without compiling or downloading chromium yourself and confirming what they try to patch over : https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
and https://github.com/brave/brave-core

And now I think you are on to a money avenue they are seeking....

.... if a program is Free... then YOU are the Product

DNS LEAKAGE spotted 23 hours ago from ramble research and formally reported 23 hours ago !:

.onion request in regular window should also avoid DNS leakage #14261:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/14261

I love those old Mercedes. Though I don't think you can find one with an MP5 embedded into the door here...

Good read, for sure.

Do you have any trouble using these cards anywhere? Do you use them for normal online bill pay, online ordering from stores (or ebay/amazon, etc)?

What happens if you, say... Put $200 on a card to pay some bills and you have a $1.28 balance left over or something on the card. Anyway to transfer that to another card or do you just lose it if you can't find a small purchase to apply that balance towards? (So in a way, an added fee to the original card purchase?)

DarkNetRadio is still a thing, I think. Not sure what the URL is, though. I've always found Tor much to slow to stream anything through reliably.

If you're down to mess with Yggdrasil I've streamed countless of hours and albums from http://[202:96c1:6478:45f7:db1d:207:36d3:d874]/music/ (UN/PW is guest) which is ran by /u/1200bps . Good albums on there.

don't drink that poison!

gab is run by total fuckups more news at 11

"No fancy web browsers"

What about lynx?

Thanks for the share.

I am reading and trying to get my head around what is posed there.

This--> "...If you connect to a VPN over Tor, this traffic separation goes away completely..."

People go connecting to their VPN via Tor? That's not ahh bright.

Normally: Computer ---> REMOTE VPN ---> TOR

No single tunnel there like claimed. Sure VPN is, but it's a drop in replacement in essence for your local gateway. Normal pedestrian leakage of IP and you get the VPN IP instead of your actual IP. More advanced leaking, well, nothing is saving you.

Then there is this ---> there's the matter of trust to consider again. Alice must be sure her VPN provider is worthy of the trust she will be placing in it. She must have paid her VPN provider in a way that can't be traced back to her. She must be sure that the VPN provider doesn't keep traffic or connection logs. She has to trust herself to never mess up and connect to her VPN without Tor. And for this VPN to be of any benefit at all, she must convince herself that her adversary can't somehow work with the VPN provider, compromise the VPN provider, or work with/compromise ISPs and ASes near the VPN provider.

This is why you need real provider for VPN that is exercising maximum transparency and who answers the tough questions. A compatible philosophy they live by is most important. But have to implement thing, not just lip service.

Same argument made for trust thy VPN provider NOT --- can be 100% extended to your ISP and its upstreams. This is why crypto matters and everything should be encapsulated in something, ideally multiple wrappers.

Peel back a layer of this and there is another layer - if your protection is working effectively.

For VPN to work in this mix you need provider that doesn't want to intimately knows its customers.

• Zero knowledge of customers.
• Anonymous payments (prepaid cards, cash, privacy coins, barter).
• No name or info required to maintain account. No logs on the servers.
• Forced DNS that is scoured clean of fluff and abuse 3rd party noise.
• Something better than a warrant canary - how about full posting of all abuse@provider inbound emails automatically?

That's a decent start.

You will see that around here soon as a thing. Cause the VPN industry is a marketing scam most of it. Gets exploited and they toss more into ad buys and placement spots. Fake privacy niche is a real tragedy.

Of course, the actual way of fighting fire with fire is by using explosions.

Wear your web condom with a VPN, then Tor...

Please see https://matt.traudt.xyz/posts/vpn-tor-not-mRikAa4h/

Where's the beef?

See the moderation log over to your right. It's public about what action is taken by mod(s) per the software.

Aside from illegal insanity it's as free here as you are going to find anywhere these days. Much freer than the big platforms.

Just drink water, it's good for your health :)

I think the recent arrest news should tell us that Tor is not completely anonymous.

Here's how to be 99.99% anonymous:

• Buy 2nd hand laptop
• Park outside a library with free Internet
• Use something like Tail OS to further hide your identity

Amen! Support small biz always. Most workers are employed by small businesses.

However, with all the tax complexity and tech infiltration, those smart registers are hell on earth.

Avoid signing up for rewards / frequent buyer stuff unless you provide them with manufactured data. A good straw man just for that is recommended. Or a few... Give the person their own VOIP number, own freebie privacy email address, etc.

So how about that Brave :)

A month ago Aspenwu was saying look out.

Rambler posted it.

Then we made this: https://ramble.pw/f/privacy/2387/brave-browser-leaks-your-tor-onion-service-requests-through

Since then Brave continues to graft garbage into their browser. Like putting NEWS reader in it. Thing constantly phoning home ET...

Brave isn't any longer allowed in my environment unless quarantined in contained machine for testing their broken stuff.

I think another good thing to be in a habit of doing is support local small businesses. You are significantly more likely to be tracked by McDonald than your local takeaway shop.

Pretty good list

Browsers leak. Utter sh!tware they are. Bloated. Bad quality control.

Tried Puppy Linux? http://puppylinux.com/

distrowatch.com is an old favorite of mine for discovering new distros.

All about color. Too bad she gets labeled as 'black' when she is equally Indian.

Indians (from India) are a minority in the US. Something significant in itself and newsworthy.

Like her father's family (who is of African descent) being prior slave owners.

Divide and conquer nonsense politics. Last time I checked a few layers deep everyone is about a shade of watermelon, even whitey.

This nonsense...

Gab downed themselves...

Why?

------------____

At 6:09pm EST Gab became aware of several accounts that were posting bitcoin wallet spam and related content. At 6:25pm out of an abundance of caution we brought the site offline in order to immediately assess the situation, solve the problem, and get Gab back online as soon as possible. Because of our quick action zero bitcoin was sent to any of the addresses posted and the affected accounts have been secured.

Because some Bitcoin crud on their platform? So pull whole site and everything in it down?

I have no faith in that site.

Correct, 17 minutes ago or so it came back, also as seen on :
https://downdetector.com/status/gab/

GAB SHUT THEMSELVES DOWN for hours! proof ::

https://news.gab.com/2021/02/19/gabs-february-19th-outage/

At 6:09pm EST Gab became aware of several accounts that were posting bitcoin wallet spam and related content. At 6:25pm out of an abundance of caution we brought the site offline in order to immediately assess the situation

Nothing is bulletproof.

OPSEC and general sanity is a process of refinement. Have to practice the craft or you just become another tool in their box.

I think it's futile to aim for 100% anonymity. We should not make it easy to track us for sure but we must also be prepared to fight in the open.