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Brave browser found to leak users’ Tor dark web activity – TechRadar
Browser pins the blame on a misconfigured ad-blocking component
Developers of the privacy-focussed Brave web browser had to scamper to fix a bug to prevent the browser from leaking visited Tor addresses in DNS traffic.
Popular anonymouys browser Brave has sported a Tor mode since 2018 to allow users to visit the .onion addresses on the dark web without using the separate Tor browser.
However, an anonymous security researcher demonstrated that the browser was sending the queries for .onion addresses to public DNS resolvers for all to see, defeating the purpose…
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