On Tuesday 09 Feb 2016 10:38:08 Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 14:13:33 -0800 Willie Matthews wrote: > > On 02/06/2016 10:08 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I got a interesting problem: > > > > > > When using Firefox 44, I can watch Videos for > > > example from YouTube and can hear the audio. > > > > > > When using the newest TOR-Browser bundle, videos > > > are playing fine...but without any sound. > > > > > > I have no clue, what happens here. > > > > > > Any help to fix that is very appreciated... > > > thank you very much in advance! > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Meino > > > > It is a lot easier to use the tor network by installing net-misc/tor and > > setting up the proxy on whatever browser you use. > > > > For instance I use Chrome. I setup a shortcut on my desktop that gives > > me a a new incognito window that is using the proxy for all connections > > and the /tmp/chrome directory for the user directory. > > > > [Desktop Entry] > > Version=1.0 > > Type=Application > > Name=Chrome with Tor > > Comment=Start Chrome with Tor > > Exec=google-chrome-beta --incognito > > --proxy-server="socks5://127.0.0.1:9050" --user-data-dir="/tmp/chrome/" > > Icon=google-chrome-unstable > > Path= > > Terminal=false > > StartupNotify=false > > > > I haven't had any problems using it this way so far. I hope that you > > will have the same results. > > Be aware of privacy issues with such setup. Your browser may leak > DNS requests, e.g. use standard system calls and they will be sent > over casual network (not TOR), thus your provider will know what > resources your are visiting as well as owner of DNS service you use. > Chrome may leak other data in background as well. > > While such background traffic can be redirected to tor using tsocks > and iptables, this is not very trivial task. That is why tor browser > is useful: it does such stuff for you by ensuring that all browser > traffic is going via tor. You may use torbrowser overlay to use > this package in Gentoo. > > Best regards, > Andrew Savchenko
Have you tested Chromium and Firefox and confirmed they do not respect their proxy setting and leak DNS data, or are you saying that they might? -- Regards, Mick
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