Tor Browser 3.5.3 is released

Personally, I don't trust ip-check. Not that I think it's malicious, but aside from it's obvious commercial purpose, it makes up the unsubstantiated claim that a longer stream sessions such as the 10 minute one Tor uses is bad for anonymity, and encourages naive users to switch from Tor to JohnDonym as a solution, calling itself "stateless". In reality, a fully stateless anonymity system like that results in *less* anonymity, as it gives a passive adversary more opportunities to surveil and a greater chance of mounting a successful traffic correlation attack. If I recall, there are even several acedemic studies that show the reason why rapidly changing circuits is harmful to anonymity. JohnDonym doesn't even think to look this up before shouting to the naive masses that their commercial product is superior. It's not just problematic because it's dishonest, but because it gives that company a larger profit at the *expense* of the innocent user's anonymity. That's not all they've done to harm people. Who could forget that backdoor JohnDonym added to it's software at the request of the German government. With these points in mind, I urge people not to link to services such as ip-check because it lies to people in an attempt to sway them from a more secure alternative. Now, they aren't as bad as some companies (I'm looking at you, HMA), but they still don't deserve the extra traffic that comes to them when there are already plenty of less biased anonymity-checking websites.
/end rant