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Do you use tor for everyday things? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 weeks ago by treadful@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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I was fiddling with some nixos Raspberry Pi images to try the distro out (along with clan) and noticed on first boot they reach out and connect to a tor relay to setup tor ssh.

It's a pretty neat concept, I think it's cool and maybe a quick way to get connected to a new device.

But the idea of connecting to tor relays at all puts me a little on edge. Feels like it'll potentially draw attention to my IP by either relays gather analytics or my ISP for noticing the traffic at all.

Am I being overly paranoid? Am I just completely ignorant to how tor works? Do you use tor on the regular for legit traffic?

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[–] Stopwatch1986@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I run a Tor proxy on my raspberry pi and all my browsers across all my household devices have foxyproxy installed. This way we access defined websites through Tor as standard eg when we query search engines and wikipedia. I try not to overburden Tor though. Never had a problem.