Tor Browser 7.5.1 is released

so just wondering but why and how does tails have a custom tor

It seems appropriate that "Cambridge Analytica" can be sung to the tune of The Reapers Chorus (from Eugene Onegin).

But I interrupted you. Sorry. You were saying?

If it's a link to a new domain, it will automatically build a new circuit, and if it's a domain you've already visited, the site will know it's still you, regardless of what circuit you're using. What's the point?

many websites don't load properly or tor hangs. refresh or new tor circuit don't work.
new identity sucks sometimes!

most sites that I visit do not need scripts allowed.

However, you can "permanently" add a domain to noscript extension's whitelist.

Are you talking about Noscript as included in Tor Browser?

> every page,video, download,etc. always have to click on "temp.allow page" every time

That does not sound right. Did you try adjusting the security slider?

> script

Noscript?

> every page,video, download,etc. always have to click on "temp.allow page" every time.

Hmm... that doesn't sound right. Did you try adjusting the security slider? Try downloading documents from a few different commonly visited sites. I bet the problem is with a few misconfigured websites you happened to be using.

> this blog is not often updated

Eh? There have been three new posts in the past few days!

> or you close it definitely

Nooooo!

Tor Project needs some way to get feedback from the user base, and currently this blog is the only way which anyone can use.

There are some problems with the blog (e.g. if you set the slider to "High" and try to comment, the notification that your comment has been sent to the modification queue does not work), but in the overall scheme of things, this must count as a minor annoyance.

Tor is under constant assault (technical, political, legal) from numerous lavishly-resourced enemies. Consequently, TP must set priorities, and clearly must dealing with emergencies and keeping well maintained the most important/used products (Tor client/server, Tor Browser) has to come well ahead of revamping the website.

That said, it was just announced that the website has been under redesign for some time, and changes are coming.

> this blog is not often updated

There have been at least three new posts in just the last few days!

Here's my guess:

If for some reason your system clock was set very incorrectly, it might take that long to adjust. One way this might happen is if the watch battery has died and when your computer boots, it thinks the date is midnight 1 Jan 1970.

The tor client also needs to download from the Directory Authorities information about what nodes are available for passing tor traffic. This usually takes several minutes (limited I assume by the fact that the DA's are busy, not by your internet connection speed).

The tor client running under the hood of your Tor Browser needs several minutes to download information about currently available Tor nodes from the Directory Authorities. That usually takes about two minutes (limited by the speed of the DAs not your own internet connection, I think).

Second that.

TBB 7.5.1 seems to be working fine for me, BTW!

Plus one.

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> TOR ALWAYS & ONLY goes through Slovakia as its last IP

You mean all your Tor circuits always use an exit node in Slovakia?

Do you only surf to websites in Slovakia? Tor client tries to build circuits with an exit node "close" in internet terms to your destination site, but it would be a bit odd, I think, if your circuits *always* use an exit node in Slovakia.

If you are not using the most recent stable release of Tor Browser, i.e., if you didn't install a version from www.torproject.org download page, there is no telling what you actually installed. It's a very good idea to verify the tarballs from torproject.org using the detached key, with PGP or GPG software.

It's possible to modify the Tor configuration so that it will choose only exit nodes in a particular country. If you were playing with the config file in your installed version of Tor Browser, could you have done that accidently?

> TorProject needs cash. fact.

Indubitably.

> maybe it sounds crazy but have you ever thought about cryptomining inside TBB,
on relays or about a TorDonationBundle?

Not crazy, and I wouldn't dismiss the idea out of hand, but I can think of at least three reasons why this might be a bad idea.

First, certain of our enemies have had it in for cryptocurrencies for some time, and appear to have done quite a bit of work to identify individual users of cryptocurrencies and to monitor blockchains. Literally mining Bitcoin (or another such) inside Tor Browser would likely only increase their fury toward the Tor community.

Second, mining cryptocurrency uses a lot of computing power, and relays are not likely to have any to spare (they need to use power to build new circuits and more generally, to do cryptography correctly). So relays should probably not be used to mine cryptocurrency.

Third, mining cryptocurrency inside your own computer, whether this is associated with Tor Browser use or not, is increasingly likely to be noticed by intelligence agencies which monitor in near real time the energy demand from individual households, via the "smart grids" which have been installed in many cities across the world, including Europe, the Americas, and Asia. So I would fear that if Tor users are allowed (or compelled) to mine cryptocurrency while using Tor, the tax authorities might turn up demanding a cut of the e-minted coinage, or the utility might retaliate against people whose Tor use or cryptocurrency mining is inferred from "suspicious patterns" of high demand from the CPUs in their computers.