Re: Advantages of downloading Debian packages over tor
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 17:21:29 +0000
- From: André Rodier <andre@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: Advantages of downloading Debian packages over tor
On 2019-03-28 16:12, John Hasler wrote:
tomas writes:
No. Because the least Google track is your IP address. It is true that
Tor is meant to obscure your IP address, but "trackers", in your use
of the word, are mostly Javascript code snippets (sometimes invisible
images and things like that) made to convince your browser to betray
you. And it'll betray you even through Tor.
But JS trackers are easily blocked by simply disallowing JS.
Thanks,
I have not seen any valid reason to download packages over tor, neither
to use the apt-transport-tor package.
Kind regards,
André