Looks great! The background texture is really nice

No problem! And yeah, it’s good to see people talking about it over here. I think it’s the best tool for online privacy OOTB (depending on your threat model), and it gets better the more people use it.

The difference is that your ISP doesn’t know where your packets are headed, and the destination doesn’t know where your packets came from. The ISP sees you connect to the entrance node and the destination sees you connect from the exit node, and it’s very difficult for anyone to trace the connection back to you (unless they own both the entrance and exit and use traffic coorelation or some other exploit/fingerprint). Regardless, both parties are generally able to tell that you are using TOR if they reference lists of known entrance/exit nodes. Also the anti-fingerprinting measures taken by TB are a bit more strict than other privacy-focused browsers

It’s great for anything low bandwidth that isn’t tied to your identity, and helps for peace of mind, despite its issues. You do run into captcha or DDOS protection issues occasionally, but the new tor circuit for this site button sometimes works. Also it uses letterboxing to prevent resolution-based fingerprinting, which isn’t very pretty, but leaving it at its default size (or locking the size using the WM) works well and is good for privacy.

Thanks! This works pretty well for now, until a more integrated solution comes along. I made a slight modification, since the original script only works when you’re at the community level. This version redirects community URLs as before, but also redirects any non-matching URLs to the search form of your home instance. It seems to work pretty well for posts. Comments and user profiles have some issues- searching comments works as long as the user is commenting on their own instance, and searching profiles works as long as the user is registered with that instance.

javascript:(() => { const inst = "lemmy.world"; const m = location.href.match(/(?:.*)\/c\/(.*(?=\/)|.*$)/i); if (m) { location.href = `https://${inst}/c/` + m[1] + "@" + location.host.toString(); } else if (location.host !== inst) { const q = new URLSearchParams(); q.append('q', location.href); location.href = `https://${inst}/search?${q.toString()}`; }})()