On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 02:54:19 -0400 Roger Dingledine <a...@mit.edu> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 11:19:49PM -0400, David Niklas wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm running firefox 61.0.1. I am trying to access the media outlet > > defcon's onion site. https://media.defcon.org/ points me to: > > http://m6rqq6kocsyugo2laitup5nn32bwm3lh677chuodjfmggczoafzwfcad.onion/ > > > > I have network.dns.blockDotOnion false > > network.http.referer.hideOnionSource true and > > network.proxy.socks_remote_dns true. > > Tor's https://check.torproject.org/ reports that I am using tor. > > You should first be aware that the right way to do what you want is to > use Tor Browser. Using any other browser with Tor is likely to not > provide the same behavior, protections, etc: > https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/
Ah, finally I find out how the TBB has been changed. > So if you have a great reason to not use Tor Browser, ok, but you are > in expert mode territory. :) 1. I did not know what they changed. 2. Where is the source code? 3. Noscript is a poor man's privacy protector. I use scriptsafe. It has many JS fingerprinting protections. And yes, many sites do require JS. I block as much as possible by default. > > This: http://www.idnxcnkne4qt76tg.onion/ is said to be the tor > > projects home page which times out. Defcon's address returns "Unable > > to connect" without any perceptible delay. > > This could be explained by a lot of things. My first thought is that the > version of Tor you have is old, so it doesn't know about v3 onion > service names (the longer safer kind). And my first suggestion for > fixing it is to use Tor Browser. > > Hope that helps, > --Roger Fixed. Now tor works, thanks! -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk