Ahaha we’ve got you now!

That doesn’t sound safe. I hope you sent this message with your phone. If you did it from the old computer and happen to have valuable data please feel free to share your IP address, someone might appreciate it…

Tor acts as a proxy Tor browser is shipped with tor but using a different port. Tor is not the browser.

So as long as you set up what you want to use with tor and remember to start it, it should work. Otherwise I’m sure you could setup a pi or local server to route everything through tor if you wanted to.

Edit: I believe the tor network is a VPN though. Your data is sent privately through the virtual tor network. Not all VPN connections have to work the same, after all Hamachi is also a VPN.

Fair enough

Signal published their reply to a court subpoena that was funny.

Tor doesn’t because the server that you contact passes it to another and encrypts the data further the exit node can then decrypt it and perform the web request on your behalf without knowing where it’s coming from.

If you care about privacy you should use tor/the tor network:

• It’s free
• It can’t track you unless someone happens to own your entire route the network, which hopefully isn’t happening and would have to a very big actor and would only be a low chance
• You can use tor bridges to bypass censorship and detection
• You can visit hidden services if you find out their .onion address
• You can host hidden services if you find out how to configure tor
• You can switch to a VPN if you really want
• Has integration into an existing privacy centred browser but can be used with anything that supports sock5 proxies

I’d like to see them find out why a server crashes if that is true. If someone actually cares and knows enough I think an admin or someone from the government could determine a lot of browsing data and link it with users just through the DNS cache and time. I’m also very sure they have some kinds of logs, even if they don’t log what each user is doing.

ipados sometimes shows me annoying translucent grey boxes in the app menu until I reboot. (I think this is the smallest problem I have with ipados, but I’m sure I could list more)