I’m not an expert on Tor, but it’s my understanding that anyone looking at your traffic (IP, etc.) only sees that you are using Tor when routed through Tor. The only time I would expect to be automatically routed to that content through Tor is if I opened it through Tor. If I’m using a regular, or even a private window, my expectation is that I will be routed to the normal TLD for that site. I would expect this feature to only route to onion sites when the URL is accessed from within a Tor window. onion, or only turn it on if I’m going to use Tor. I can either turn the feature on and deal with new pop-ups whenever I run into a site with a. This is not ideal for a normal workflow and is actually quite disruptive as many resource sites also have a hidden service as well.

Go to any site that has an onion, example: Įven if I’m in a normal browsing window (not private or Tor), if this option is enabled, a Tor window will pop up and bring me instead to the onion site.

onion domain in Tor window.” It is also not a great workflow having a new Tor window pop up when I visit a site that has an onion, and I’m not sure if it’s the best privacy (anti-fingerprinting) practice either.

If this is intentional, the wording is not straightforward: “Brave will open onion service of the website when available or. Not sure if this is by design or not, but onion routing, when enabled, is turned on even if browsing in a regular window or a private window, not just a Tor window.

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