It sounds like most other users install it that way too. Which surprises me, since I had thought the Linux community had started to move towards Flatpaks. But anybody who searched Flathub for Tor Browser, would have seen the flatpak with the Tor Project author listed as verified, and there would be no indication that this was in fact an unstable installation.
I get what you’re saying, but at the same time if every developer released software as pre-compiled binaries on their website, installing stuff on Linux would become such a PITA. (This is different from how Windows works because apps for Windows are distributed using installers like xxx.msi, and Linux does not have a unified installation system across distros)
You are right I should have linked directly to the workaround, sorry. Glad you got it sorted out though.
the point of tor is not to avoid fingerprinting, it’s to blend in
Fingerprinting and blending in are the same thing. You can’t blend in if you have a unique fingerprint. The Tor Project goes to great lengths to mitigate fingerprinting using their custom browser, it’s one of their main goals. It’s pointless to use Tor with a regular browser that doesn’t have those protections, because websites can just identify you by your fingerprint even when you are obfuscating your IP using Tor.
You are no more tracked by Reddit than you would be with up to date tor
Browser version is a major part of your fingerprint. It’s in your user agent, but that can be faked so there are additional mechanisms that check what javascript features your browser supports to get a more reliable read of your browser version. Use https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ to learn more.
And fingerprinting is not a hack or exploit. It’s something that websites use for tracking, just like cookies. And I’m almost certain that Reddit fingerprints users to detect ban evasions.
Wow nice. Still not really friendly to beginners, since this is something they would have to dig into documentation to find, but it’s good to know
switch to the old.reddit.com site (onion version tends to work more often), and if that doesn’t work, switch Tor circuits (the option is under Tor Browser menu bar, I have it pinned to the top-bar for convenience)
This was an official Flatpak from Tor Browser, so there’s no reason why it should be less reliable than the packages from distribution maintainers. Not to mention for atomic distros, flatpaks are the official way to install software.
You can check the Tor Project blog to figure out the latest release, and go to your Tor Browser’s menu > Help > About Tor Browser to see if it matches. It should be version 14.0.7. If it is not, the fix is detailed in the Github issue I linked in the post
This seems like something that Flatpak should be able to handle though. Afaik Mullvad Browser never had this issue. Flatpaks also have numerous advantages, like automatically handling desktop shortcuts.
Lately they’ve been rate-limiting more heavily but if I wait and refresh enough times, or change circuits enough times, it tends to work