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Please be aware when you're on Tor that you're not invincible. There are many ways things can go wrong, this article highlights a few key ones and gives you some solutions:
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/how-you-can-be-deanonymized-through-tor/

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[–] Tibert@compuverse.uk 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think this is either very not well understood or I am missing an old brace news.

They did not alter any link.

They however were proposing an auto complete, when the user was typing a crypto currency website name, with their affiliate link. https://brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/.

They did not modify any link the user imput without autocomplete or through a search engine. (also it's fixed).

Maybe I'm mistaken you are talking of something else.

[–] ultimate_question@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Even their "correct" functionality is sketchy AF, the average user would still have no idea what that URL tag meant and thus would not be making the informed choice the article implies they would be making