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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance (www.wired.com)
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[–] dditty@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s Holmes suggests users try the private browsing feature in the Brave browser, which uses a stripped-down version of Tor’s anonymous routing by default.

Better alternatives than this? I use a VPN but not Tor at the moment

[–] c0smokram3r@midwest.social 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

mullvad or librewolf browsers > brave

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah, Brave has even worse track record than stock Firefox.

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah those are what I am currently using as well, was mostly curious about what their were talking about re tor routing or w/e

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

If you’re gonna get another browser, why not cut out the middleman and just use TOR Browser directly?

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

I don't think there is a middle ground between a VPN and Tor.

As much as I don't like Brave this seems like a good feature. There do seem to be some problems with it leaking in some circumstances though.

For the curious, Brave page about private windows with Tor Here

Issues on their GitHub Here