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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: function on February 26, 2012, 11:48 pm

Title: Tor Browsing Bundle issue
Post by: function on February 26, 2012, 11:48 pm
Something's been bothering me since coming to the Tor network which I'm certain is a minor thing for you guys but I have no experience with the subject and I would be fine with it but it affects the way I communicate in the market.
When I click any link, even within the same websites, I get reverted back to the Onion disclaimer about the Tor Hidden Services, and always have to click the "have read and accept" button.

Can someone shed some light on this for me?

Thanks

Edit:

Had to register a new account, i was having problems replying to posts and even changing my profile (adding a signature or even deleting the account, could't do it, kept saying the referring url was wrong or that it had timed out). Previous un was Aldous.Huxley.

Seems I can browse much faster around the forum with this new registry. Don't know why.

Another thing, was looking through the OVDB threads and found the Anonymous browsing thread, went to ip-check.info to have a look and performed a test, seems the browser is sending the unique ID and it says that's a bad thing, how can I prevent that?

Edit2:

Alright, so I got it that it is a cache related issue, Firefox is configured to allow 0 cache capacity, through selection of the bypass default settings, but it still receives that username/password request. Any ideas?

Come on people, help out.
Title: Re: Tor Browsing Bundle issue
Post by: Angelology on February 27, 2012, 01:52 am
Something's been bothering me since coming to the Tor network which I'm certain is a minor thing for you guys but I have no experience with the subject and I would be fine with it but it affects the way I communicate in the market.
When I click any link, even within the same websites, I get reverted back to the Onion disclaimer about the Tor Hidden Services, and always have to click the "have read and accept" button.

Can someone shed some light on this for me?

Thanks

Edit:

Had to register a new account, i was having problems replying to posts and even changing my profile (adding a signature or even deleting the account, could't do it, kept saying the referring url was wrong or that it had timed out). Previous un was Aldous.Huxley.

Seems I can browse much faster around the forum with this new registry. Don't know why.

Another thing, was looking through the OVDB threads and found the Anonymous browsing thread, went to ip-check.info to have a look and performed a test, seems the browser is sending the unique ID and it says that's a bad thing, how can I prevent that?

Edit2:

Alright, so I got it that it is a cache related issue, Firefox is configured to allow 0 cache capacity, through selection of the bypass default settings, but it still receives that username/password request. Any ideas?

Come on people, help out.
I would look for answers on their official site.... not on SR.
Title: Re: Tor Browsing Bundle issue
Post by: function on February 27, 2012, 02:05 am
Why? There is so much discussion about privacy here and so many great users who seem to be knowledgeable in these problems, it doesn't seem out of place.
Title: Re: Tor Browsing Bundle issue
Post by: Looker on February 27, 2012, 09:17 pm
It sounds like you are using tor2web and not the tor browser bundle.

Are you sure you downloaded the tor browser bundle and you are feeding it the 'silkroadvb5piz3r.onion' url and nothing more?
Title: Re: Tor Browsing Bundle issue
Post by: function on February 27, 2012, 11:55 pm
Thanks for replying Looker.

Yes I'm using Tor Browser Bundle for OSX, I do browse here in the forums, Tor Mail, DuckDuckGo and probably Intersango in different tabs. Should I not use tabs at all?
I went to the ip-check.info for a check up and followed some of their pointers, disabled the cache, tab history and cookies (whitelisted SR and SR forums for now only). 

Regardless of taking these steps, I spent a lot of time reading your posts and kmfkewm's about privacy, but my field is another, the conversation is way too technical. However I would like to understand how to protect myself better and as a result, protect other better too when communicating. I haven't done any purchases yet, just been lurking around, and probably have already made some beginner's mistakes.
Title: Re: Tor Browsing Bundle issue
Post by: supersecretsquirrel on February 28, 2012, 09:00 pm
Yes I'm using Tor Browser Bundle for OSX, I do browse here in the forums, Tor Mail, DuckDuckGo and probably Intersango in different tabs. Should I not use tabs at all?

Tabs is fine.

I went to the ip-check.info for a check up and followed some of their pointers, disabled the cache, tab history and cookies (whitelisted SR and SR forums for now only). 

What about https://check.torproject.org/?
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Also, you said that you get reverted back to some disclaimer about Tor hidden services. Where are you seeing this?
Title: Re: Tor Browsing Bundle issue
Post by: function on February 28, 2012, 09:48 pm
It's the onion.to page.

"You are about to visit a Tor Hidden Service website through a proxy.
But first you must read and understand this disclaimer."

etc.

I just want to understand if it's normal for it to show up every once in a while, even when surfing from one page to another in the same website.
Hum, I think I have to read more about security and find a way to feel safer. Like I said, I was reading a lot of posts where members discuss security, however there seems to be a lot of disagreement and I can't decide on which way to go.
Title: Re: Tor Browsing Bundle issue
Post by: supersecretsquirrel on February 29, 2012, 06:51 am
Not normal if you are using the Tor Browser Bundle correctly. It sounds like you're not.