If Mozilla/Firefox were to die, what would the Tor browser use?
Google Chrome? Because honestly, Google cannot be trusted. Not now. Not ever.
If Mozilla/Firefox were to die, what would the Tor browser use?
Dominic Walker
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gitlab.torproject.org
brave.com
gitlab.torproject.org
support.brave.com
github.com
bugzilla.mozilla.org
twitter.com
Julian Brooks
WebKit
Jackson Hughes
it can be trusted as much as the google-funded Firecuck
Christopher Walker
brave is made by the people that made firefox worth a shit. tor chose a Firefox base because they started before chromium even existed. they cannot deviate from the firefox base because of the sunk cost fallacy from their backers (the state department), and it's also easy to selectively shell high value targets if tor browser is using a Firefox base.
Aaron Johnson
This is a hard one.
Firefox is the only one that has anti fingerprinting capabilities. Using Ungoogled Chromium would either mean just accepting higher chances of fingerprinting and that maybe not all the Google botnet has been removed.
Trying to keep Firefox alive would mean a lot of work and progressively more incompatible pages.
There is no good option here.
Kayden Green
Chromium has better sandboxing but Firefox has better anti-fingerprinting capabilities and it's easier to harden using about:config settings rather than having to edit the source code for most things.
Landon Fisher
brave is catching up to firefox in the fingerprint management department. there is no reason to use firefox as a base.
Noah Cox
I'm more surprised there isn't a new Tor coded from scratch in a memory safe language.
Isaac Sanchez
Could be. But then they would have to figure out how to remove all the botnet put there by the Brave developers themselves.
And using something new instead of the more mature option is always a risk regardless of it being theoretically better.
Adrian Ramirez
lokinet.io
Parker Scott
Amazing that onion services haven't their own browser that disabled all threats and using old and secure html tags.
Kayden Robinson
Google offers very little support to forks.
A chromium based version of tor browser would require a gigantic patchset, and tor project would have to keep it up to date and applied to the latest version of chromium because Google does not offer a 1-year stable version of chromium with security patches applied like mozilla does with firefox ESR. Each ESR revision is maintained for one year with the latest security patches by Mozilla. Chrome enterprise is only 6 weeks.
Jaxson Allen
they will probably keep being on the old Firefox
most websites are already broken / restricted anyway
Blake Bennett
Do retards really believe this? If you trust brave you really are a retarded faggot.
Ethan Cooper
holy kek no. It's not even close. Tor browser has fingerprinting mitigations inside fucking widget code to prevent fingerprinting based off of shit like scrollbars, tab-key event ordering differences based on operating system version, etc. it really is insane how far they go
Justin Cooper
it will always be based off Chromium and because of that will be full of "bugs" that break anonymity
Joseph Phillips
Tor browser work done on fingerprinting mitigation
Caleb Sanders
>Firefox is the only one that has anti fingerprinting capabilities
What is this?
brave.com
Eli Bailey
scrollbar sizes changing viewport
gitlab.torproject.org
Julian Martin
>What is this?
Apparently not very good
support.brave.com
>If your personal safety depends on remaining anonymous, we highly recommend using Tor Browser instead of Brave Tor windows.
Xavier Gomez
Not on the same level as Tor != Not good
Joshua Brown
>The set of fingerprintable attributes are open-ended and will never be fully enumerated, but new attributes can be added to our tools. AFPET evaluators should keep in mind that any one-time evaluation of PETs will quickly become out of date, necessitating the use of automated tools like ours. We encourage developers and advocates (e.g., the EFF) to use automated tools to regularly test the trackability of PETs. Our tool can fill this need, and to this end we open-source the tool here: github.com
>last updated 3 years ago
bros....
Christian Turner
>muh 3 years old
Firefox cope
Caleb Roberts
>He doesn't know how many new media query types google added to the CSS spec since 2019
Bentley Hall
whatever basedzilla shill
Brayden Jackson
mozilla spends money on getting disney cg fox butthole ads in firefox so they can get more adbux they are totally thinking of the right way to improve fingerprint protection and brave just wants to scam users while they do "research" on "mitigating" 3rd party "trackers".
Jonathan Green
>mozilla spends money on getting disney cg fox butthole ads in firefox so they can get more adbux they are totally thinking of the right way to improve fingerprint protection
This, but unironically
bugzilla.mozilla.org