There are new onion site icons to better separate Tor Browser from The Onion Router services it relies on, because third–party usage of onion services has been growing. The circuit display interface has also been reworked to play nicely with screen readers. 'Usability testing participants often struggled to find the circuit display when asked, and users generally needed to be taught where it lived,' said Duncan Larsen-Russell, Tor UX and design team lead, in a blog post. And relay nodes now have national flags that make it easier to understand node locations. Tor Browser 12.5 brings with it a revised circuit display interface – which shows the network node traffic path – that's now represented by its own icon next to the padlock icon in the menu bar. Tor users, beware: 'Scheme flooding' technique may be used to deanonymize you.Modified version of Tor Browser spies on Chinese users.Malware disguised as Tor browser steals $400k in cryptocash.TOR Browser 12 released with support for Albanian, Ukrainian.Safety is not assured by software selection. The company warns, 'If your personal safety depends on remaining anonymous, we highly recommend using Tor Browser instead of Brave Tor windows.'Įven so, the Tor Browser cannot promise perfect anonymity online – there are attacks on Tor nodes that can unmask users – so if personal safety is the issue, that requires careful threat analysis and ideally expert consultation. However, as Brave observes in the documentation for its Private Window with Tor Connectivity, it does not implement most of the privacy protections in the Tor Browser.

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