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by orblivion 1427 days ago
Which is what I figured is the point, since it's libre. On the other hand doesn't that defeat the purpose of the privacy thing? If every request for ~one user's worth of traffic is coming from one proxy you can sort of identify one person that way.
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> On the other hand doesn't that defeat the purpose of the privacy thing?

It depends - a lot of the privacy invasions go beyond just the IP address and also include browser fingerprints and on-page activity collected by malicious Javascript - these third-party frontends defeat that.

All (most?) of them also trivially supports using a proxy so you can selectively route them through Tor or some other proxy or VPN.
Heh, then who hosts that proxy? And might you want to self-host that if it gets overloaded? TOR of course makes sense here though.