Allow me to send a big shoutout and my deepest thanks to the maintainers and volunteers of both the Tor Browser and the Tor Project in general. You make the world a better place, even if the majority of the population don't realise they should pay more attention to your work. You're the real MVPs!
Are there any casual users of Tor around? Someone who does it not for the sake of safety, but just privacy?<p>I'd happily use Tor, but the last time I used it (which was ~5 years ago), it was terribly slow for regular browsing (not streaming, or anything considered bandwidth heavy).
Tor Browser might be the least mainstream safe browser on the Internet:<p>* It permanently tracks the lagging ESR Firefox.<p>* It puts its users on Tor, which "anonymizes" them but also flags their traffic as interesting.<p>* It collapses all those users down to a single set of browser releases, making it cost-effective to target exploits to.<p>Use Firefox if you really like Firefox, but use the most recent version you can possibly get. Mozilla's is not the best-hardened browser.<p>Use Tor if you really believe in Tor. But use it explicitly, not as part of a browser bundle. Your choice of browser has a significant impact on your operational security; don't let a bunch of volunteers at Tor make that decision for you.
Dear lord, Windows antivir protection has gone full stupid with this.<p>I am on Win10 and it will not allow me to install it in Program Files. If I install it in Desktop, it will keep flagging tor.exe as a virus.<p>After marking 4 times that the Windows Virus and Threat Protection should restore the exe, i was able to start the browser.<p>Then the windows antivir went full dystopian mode, and flagged it again. Now it is asking me to reboot the computer to delete tor.exe from the device.