On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 08:05:17PM -0700, Mike Perry wrote: > Garrett Robinson: > > On 8/28/15 7:01 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > > > [email protected]: > > >> Hi guys and girls, > > >> are there security issues using the privacy badger from eff.org with the > > >> tor browser ? > > >> Or: Is there are a need to use privacy badger or is this utility > > >> dispensable ? > > > > > > The filters in use by Privacy Badger are fingerprintable - it is > > > possible for sites to determine that you have it installed. > > > > Since Privacy Badger uses a learning heuristic based on the sites you > > visit, it actually might possible for it to leak information about your > > browsing history too. > > Yikes! I didn't know this. This is especially bad, especially if Privacy > Badger has custom storage mechanisms for this that aren't cleared > regularly (which you touch on below). It may also result in browsing > history leaking to disk, which wouldn't normally happen in the default > Tor Browser.
Mike, I'm interesting, You personaly are using some adblockers or Noscript in Your everyday webserfing? -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
