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by deadwing0 2037 days ago
When starting up Tor, aren't you confronted with a message about not maximizing the window? I wonder how many users follow that and leave it as is.

Is there anything else that makes it not really effective?
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dymax78 2037 days ago
>When starting up Tor, aren't you confronted with a message about not maximizing the window?

I've never seen that message before, but that would explain why it always opens up 'windowed'.

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nitrohorse 2037 days ago
I'm pretty sure that because Tor Browser ships w/ `privacy.resistFingerprinting.letterboxing` set to `true` by default since 9.0 [1] (Oct. 22 2019 [2]), users can resize the windows now without affecting their fingerprint.

[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31059 [2] https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-90

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