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I use it for just about everything except for things tied to IRL identities. (short-lived usage like making a search request, to persistent identities like this)

Some services block Tor. Sometimes they can be bypassed by pressing "New Tor circuit for this site" a few times, sometimes they cannot. Some of the methods listed here [0] can help (though I wouldn't log into any accounts using this as TLS isn't being terminated at your machine).

Some features don't work in Tor Browser, off the top off my head, sites using AudioContext, Webauthn, Webassembly. (webassembly can be a pain due to some encrypted paste bin sites using it).

I run multiple instances of Tor Browser (separated with Linux namespaces, particularly netns because Tor Browser will fail to load if an existing Tor service is running at port 9150) so that I can multitask between for example posting this on HN and random browsing in another instance. That also helps with the webassembly thing as I run a script to spin up a temporary instance of Tor Browser, enable webassembly in about:config, and load the failing page.

For the sites that block Tor that I need to login to or that don't work with the ad-hoc methods listed above, I will fallback to using a VPN + an about:config-modified version of Tor Browser that has the Tor proxy disabled. Mullvad Browser can also be used as an alternative.

I also use it outside of TB for IRC among other things. You have to be careful as there is no uniform configuration for everyone like TB.

0: https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/wikis/org/doc/Li...




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