Using Tor Browser as your primary browser is a bad idea because it's way behind on security features and you mark yourself out as an interesting target. Using Chrome over Tor is strictly better from a privacy viewpoint than using Chrome on its own. So it depends what you're optimising for. If privacy is your absolute priority, the Tor Browser reduces the number of cases of information leakage but still requires you to have the discipline to avoid any other methods of leaking your identity. If you understand all the issues around that then you probably also understand enough to ignore Tptacek and use it anyway. But if you don't, using the Tor Browser leaves you in a worse position than you'd otherwise be in - you're less secure and you're probably leaking PII anyway.
There are cases where using the Tor Browser makes sense, but it's a terrible blanket recommendation. If you're not actively trying to hide your identity, using it will make you less secure than you would otherwise be.
> If privacy is your absolute priority, the Tor Browser reduces the number of cases of information leakage but still requires you to have the discipline to avoid any other methods of leaking your identity.
Yes. But Tor Browser is released specifically to help you manage this. Information leakage through the web browser is amazingly easy - and it doesn't take logging onto a website to be finger printed (Chrome over Tor is probably a fairly unique fingerprint on its own). Why not find out for your self how unique at https://panopticlick.eff.org/
> If you understand all the issues around that then you probably also understand enough to ignore Tptacek and use it anyway.
No comment.
> But if you don't, using the Tor Browser leaves you in a worse position than you'd otherwise be in - you're less secure and you're probably leaking PII anyway.
Doubt it but again citations needed.
> There are cases where using the Tor Browser makes sense,
agreed.
> but it's a terrible blanket recommendation.
Citation needed.
> using it will make you less secure than you would otherwise be.
Citation needed.
> If Chrome leaks any local information this is not true.
Leaking information over Tor is no worse than leaking it over non-Tor, and in general cases Chrome isn't directly sending information that allows a single site to identify you.
> Chrome over Tor is probably a fairly unique fingerprint on its own
What's your threat model? That's a serious question.
Sandboxing does not have to be provided at application level. The OS or a virtual machine can take case of confinement.
> Leaking information over Tor is no worse than leaking it over non-Tor, and in general cases Chrome isn't directly sending information that allows a single site to identify you.
More like: Leaking local information over Tor is equivalent to not using Tor, and in general cases the user has no control over what data Chrome is sending.