I just installed Brave to have some different accs logged, and then I saw that addon… I’m running it right now but… did I just set a Tor relay? Really? It wasn’t that easy before :S

  • basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 hours ago

    No, I beleive that is just a snowflake proxy, which basically is just used when somebody first connects to the tor network to hook them up to an entrance node. So your computer is not actually acting as a node but rather an intermediary. I would also suggest not using Brave browser because I have heard bad things about it’s owner and just their general policies. Many people say that brave browser is really just privacy cosplay. You can just get a copy of firefox and manually harden it yourself using noscript and a vpn. Or skip that and just use tor browser for all your privacy intensive stuff.

    • PiraHxCx@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      My main browser is LibreWolf and I have Mullvad for some other accs. I do however have old stuff that turned disposable now, and I decided to let these logged on Brave out of convenience (since to let accs logged on Mullvad or Tor you have to enable history and cookies and it defeats the purpose of those browsers :P)
      I’m also using Brave to check some stuff because all the aforementioned browsers break some canvas script and I use those for image effects in my site and I’m trying to fix the script so it works on hardened browsers.