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by jmkni 4098 days ago
Isn't that impossible though?

I'm not 100% on this but I thought that because Reddit isn't hosted on the 'deep web' (ie no .onion address) you lose a layer of protection visiting it even over Tor, compared to sites that are hosted on Tor. It's still safer, but it's not the same, right?

Anyway, it's inevitable that some people are better at anonymising themselves than others, so even if they all try to do so, there's going to be at least some users who do it badly and wind up being arrested.

It's also inevitable that 100% of people who are confident enough to buy drugs online think that they have done everything correctly.

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Tor still masks your IP, and as long as you make sure you take proper steps to disable Javascript, use HTTPS, avoid mentioning anything that could allow someone to easily pick you out among a group of people, etc., you can still manage to maintain a certain level of anonymity. Riskier, sure, but certainly not outside the realm of possibility.

At least as far as I understand it. I admittedly don't have as much experience with Tor as I'd like, so I'd be happy to be told that I'm wrong.