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I just wanted to share that I got an "Antarctica" country flag on Tor for a moment, but it changed a few seconds later. Weirdest shit I've seen so far when using it. Next to that is those "EU" flag ones, with no specific country. Just the "EU" as a country.

The country flag was like this:
Antarctica-Flag-1-3866811849.jpg

Btw, I also find it interesting when a website is blocked in Germany but not Russia.
 
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It doesn't surprise me that some things are considered OK in Russia but not Germany, because Slav culture is quite different compared to the mixed Aryan/African culture of Germany.

Post-Hitler Germany is a cuck state that feels the need to censor anything it deems harmful to the masses. The Kremlin also does this, but for different reasons and different end goals. But as to why it seems like a shocker that Russia allows access to a website that Germany blocks, I think it comes down to how a lot of people view Russia (an imperialist dictatorship and the root of all evil) vs Germany (a free country that does no wrong and the leader of the EU). Russia has a vested interest in controlling the narrative domestically, so if something isn't seen as antithetical to Russia's plans of world enslavication there's no reason to block it. Germany, on the other hand, thinks that if they make some content illegal, that means that things like mass shootings and terrorist attacks will be less likely and the Fourth Reich will never happen.

Neither one has freedoms quite like the US has (we generally don't block websites at the government level), and although mass shootings are way more common here (easy access to guns) and terrorism also happens here (it happens everywhere in the free world) the American neo-Nazis haven't really gotten any traction despite trying for over 80 years now, and actual Nazis were given a new life here by way of Operation Paperclip and somehow the US government has managed to remain a republican democracy. This despite the ideologies of Nazism, as well as Communism, being legal here.
 
This despite the ideologies of Nazism, as well as Communism, being legal here.
Being a member of a Communist party has technically been illegal since the McCarthy era. They just don't enforce the law (though a lot of people think the Communist Party USA is a FBI front). Weird how whoever is in government can just ignore and not enforce laws they don't like, if you think about it.


>The Communist Control Act of 1954 (68 Stat. 775, 50 U.S.C. §§ 841–844) is an American law signed by President Dwight Eisenhower on August 24, 1954, that outlaws the Communist Party of the United States and criminalizes membership in or support for the party or "Communist-action" organizations

Yep, that's still on the books.
 
TorAntactica.webp


Who is running a Tor node from the country of Antarctica, of all places?

This was a connection earlier to a different website btw, before anyone tries to schizo theory how I doxed myself or something. Like good luck with that.
 
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Sorry for necro.
Tor is now removing anti-fingerprinting features, claiming that they cause too much friction and that convenience should be the default on an anonymity browser.

Minor bugs and miscommunications are being used to justify shoving user agent spoofing and strict security policy behind about:config.
 
This is a blessing in disguise since any additional feature can be detected and make you easier to fingerprint.
https://www.wired.com/story/your-digital-fingerprint-makes-you-easy-to-track/ (explains it the best)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10207-024-00944-7 (more technical)
https://research.ijcaonline.org/volume90/number3/pxc3894239.pdf (more technical)

This is also brought up in passing there.
  1. so common that a tracker can't tell you apart from the crowd (as in Tor Browser), or
  2. randomized so that a tracker can't tell it's you from one moment to the next (as in Brave browser).
Brave has also a tor mode and because all modes have randomized elements, as long as enough people use brave it won't be a problem.

There are ways to protect yourself and not stand out, not posting real information about yourself instead of just trying to hide or fake all of it. Having more than 1 account or just overloading the trackers with "bad" data.
It's called "pseudonymization" and means basically the same thing as "hiding in plain sight".

So it's really not a problem, but I'd like to recommend brave with the tor mode since you don't really need tor in 2025 imo.
 
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