Comment by mhitza
2 days ago
And significantly faster to access onion websites than go through exit nodes, which are probably saturated most of the time.
Reddit over their onion website is very snappy, and compared to accessing reddit over VPN it shows fewer issues with loading images/videos and less likely to be blocked off.
It would be nice if more websites were available as onion addresses (and I2P as well).
edit: also if the Tor browser (desktop and mobile) would ship with ublock origin bundled, that would further improve the experience (Brave browser Tor window compared to the Tor browser is a night and day difference)
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.
> 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.
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.