Two things I've learned from using Tor Browser | Linux Today

Two things I’ve learned from using Tor Browser

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Feb 7, 2015

So what did I learn from these past few months of using Tor Browser? First: That some website’s will attempt to extract HTML5 canvas image data that can be used to uniquely identify my computer – even if they are disallowed from setting cookies.

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