Mike Gerwitz <m...@gnu.org> writes: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 15:09:51 -0500, Joshua Branson wrote: >> Now, when you start icecat, you may have to click on the tor plugin to >> activate it, but it normally autostarts for me. >> >> Also, at least for me, that doesn't configure my browser to access tor >> hidden services. But it does run all of your http traffic through the >> tor network, which is pretty cool. > > That's concerning to me: it seems to imply that DNS requests are _not_ > being proxied through Tor, which could leak very sensitive information > to your ISP and other parties.
Really!? That's annoying. We should probably report that as a bug! It's not much help if your DNS is going to your ISP! > > I use FoxyProxy Standard[0] (just by habit over the many years I've used > Tor with Firefox), so I hadn't tried the Addon distributed with > Icecat. FoxyProxy has an option to proxy DNS requests through Tor (and > does so by default IIRC). I'm actually super curious about using local proxies! Ludo uses a different proxy I think...but there are probably a ton of proxies that you can run. Can you give me a brief overview of why to use proxies...? I'm also interested in performance caching proxies... > > [0]: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/FoxyProxy_Standard -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus
