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BrowserAudit has less warnings for my Firefox setup vs. out of the box Tor Browser (browseraudit.com)

submitted 2 months ago by thingsiplay@beehaw.org to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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https://browseraudit.com/

I just downloaded Tor browser (which is a configured Firefox browser BTW) using the torbrowser-launcher that automatically downloads and manages the browser. And I thought for funs sake, checking and comparing some tests from browseraudit against my current personal Firefox setup. And to my surprise I got more warnings with Tor Browser v14.5 (based on Mozilla Firefox 128.9.0esr) vs My personal setup of Firefox Browser v137.0.2 (custom configurations and plugins installed). Both at the most up to date version in their official version.

I just found this interesting and wanted to share with you.

Tor Browser

My Firefox Browser

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[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

The thing you should be aware of is that Tor is designed to make you look uniform to every other Tor browser. It's set such that you should not really stand out from other Tor users by browser fingerprinting techniques.

Without showing us what the differing warnings are, it's hard to even assess what this information means.