@andrew there is still a difference between plaintext traffic going through
ISPs and routers VS going through someones private server. Your ISP may lose
customers if they are found to be modifying wikipedia, a malice node may have
something to gain by doing so.
If you don't know what tor is, how to use tor and have not read the warnings
you SHOULDN'T BE USING TOR. How easy would it be for me to go into private
mode to look up my illness, see a wiki page (plaintext) and found a link for
drug treatment (malicous). What if I have a false sense of protection, sign
into an email address I made outside of tor and emailed some sensitive
information (medical, whistleblowing, bank, secrets to blackmail me on, etc).
IMO this is enough reason to not have that tor feature. I linked an article
about binary patching so it's now well pass the point of modifying simple
html pages. Remember, this isn't about you being hacked. It's about users who
don't understand tor and use it because the browser made it appear like a
good idea. It's stupid to have someone using tor when they haven't read the
warnings. It's actually fucking stupid.
@SuperTramp83 Agreed but I'm interested in "proven several times that Tor is
not that reliable in keeping you anonimous" annoymous*. So far I remember 3
instances, one before gaurds were implemented, 2nd because users use torrent
clients and its just obvious and 3rd which IDK was spectated or not
@salparadise IDK what you're going on about but is encryption a trap? Do you
know what beats militarys? Nature. Nature and physics. For the most part the
way the tor network works appears to be secure. You can't break good
encryption. You can't force a 3rd party to shape their traffic. You can't be
everywhere at once and have unlimited spending money
@bitbit it's suggesting they can't keep modifying the button for every
firefox version so don't add it to your firefox installion. The button is
used in the tor browser bundle along with tweaks (like cache/storange) and
additional plugins.
Anyways I have no idea why one would want the browse to use tor in private
mode but what I am saying is IT IS HARMFUL. Specifically malicious node
modifying popular plaintext sites such as wikipedia and CNN. I can't
understand why there wasn't just a 2nd browser title TorBrowserBundle
