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Does the Tor browser save cached versions of .onion sites to computer?

When browsing the web, cached versions of websites are downloaded and saved for indefinite periods automatically by internet browsers. Every image and .html file associated with the website are stored in the browser's cache folders as perfect…
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Are Tor's downloaded files really secure? Also why not zip package?

Linked from download page: http://www.torproject.org/dist/vidalia-bundles/vidalia-bridge-bundle-0.2.4.22-0.2.21.exe Why this tor.exe is bigger than TBB's one? Also, why TBB's tor.exe is not 0.2.4.22? (It's 0.2.4.21) And why Tor project doesn't have…
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Tor won't open on mac, saying Firefox is running - but it isn't

When I try to open the Tor bundle on a Mac, a box pops up and says "A copy of Firefox is already open. Only one copy of Firefox can be open at a time." But I don't have Firefox open.
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What are the requirements for onion v3 sites?

What is requirements for Onion v3 sites? Greetings to the experts! I'm not can open any v3-sites (htt_://56characters.onion), but only v2-sites (htt_://16characters.onion) My noob brother must do something but not admits it, because now v3 never…
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How much privacy is one giving up when javascript is turned off?

I was thinking about setting up Tor browser bundle to be my main browser and perhaps add a "open in chrome" (or something like) when I ran into an insurmountable Tor related problem. I hadn't considered this until now because everywhere seems to…
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Tor started but permission denied

I am a beginner who has been stuck while trying to get tor up and running on my MacOS for some time now. I installed tor with homebrew and was able to get it successfully launched in the terminal with brew services start tor (I get the message…
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Using regular Firefox new tab page

I use the Tor browser for Windows and I want to use the Firefox new tab page as the Tor browser homepage (a blank page where you see your frequently visited sites, favorites, etc) Is that possible?
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Shutterstock sends "406 Not Acceptable"

When I visit a specific webpage with Tor, I received the following error: 406 Not Acceptable openresty Does anybody understand what this means and how I can get around it? I do not receive this error when I use a regular web browser to visit the…
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Opening Tor on my Mac OX says Firefox is already running

Just downloaded the new Tor browser bundle on my MACBOOK Pro and I get a message that reads "a copy of firefox is already running. Only one copy allowed at a time." Any suggestions for newbie, like myself?
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TOR 10: An Error Occurred ‘try again’ Playback ID on YouTube

After updating to TOR 10 I've got "An Error Occurred ‘try again’ Playback ID on YouTube". I tried many ways to solve it, nothing helped, but the downgrade to the previous version.
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How to force 2020 version of Tor to exit specific country

I need to configure my Tor to exit US. I've read lots of tips from various web sites. In general, they all say to edit the torrc file and add ExitNodes {us} . It does not work. If I go to something like gmail.com after setting that parameter, it…
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Migrating a service from its v2 address to a new v3 one

I'm running a bitcoin node behind a v2 onion address. I'd like to migrate its traffic to a different, v3 address. Is there a way that my peers can be notified of such a change so they learn that myv2addess.onion and myv3address.onion are actually…
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How can hidden services avoid indexing by search engines?

There are search engines for Tor hidden services, analogous to Google, Yahoo, etc. for the greater Internet. How can sites avoid being indexed by these search engines? Does a conventional "robots.txt" work?
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Tor vs Brave - which is technically more effective to hinder user tracking - fingerprint generalization or randomization?

TOR's method to countering fingerprinting is to make as many users "appear the same" as possible, let us call this to "generalize". While Brave tries to randomize all fingerprints of each and every user in a unique way (for each new opened…
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Tor Search Engine? is there any Tor2web search engines in clearnet?

I'm looking to a best tor search engine for search tor hidden services at without the need of tor browser. Also, I like a simple user interface and fast. Please suggest some tor2web proxy search engines.
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