Con #2: 2-step authentication on websites with single-sign-on Entering captcha each time you want to access a webpage is really annoying. More often you’ll stumble upon websites asking you to prove you’re not a robot. As a consequence you may be completely denied the access (which happens to me on a website like Immoweb.be and even on Google Images). If you combine your use of TOR (totally new IP at each connection) with a no-cookie principle (no third-party cookies at all and first-party cookies Cerased after each session) many websites will assess your connection attempts as suspicious. Con #1: you’re too anonymous for certain websites This may also help discovering new type of content that gets filtered out by Google (the infamous “ filter bubble” effect rightly described by Eli Pariser in 2011). This is great for instance when you want to book plane tickets online, the price of which may increase with each tracked visit. Your actual IP address is completely hidden and there’s no way to trace it back. The TOR system allows you to surf in complete anonymity. This is of course TOR’s promise which is delivered.
After 1 month using it, here are the Pro’s and Con’s. For those who don’t know it, TOR is an open-source project that allows anonymity when surfing online.
With that in mind I decided to remove Chrome and Firefox and to use TOR instead. All your online actions are being tracked. The initial libertarian dream has turned into a total control nightmare, not far away from Orwell’s “1984” vision. Privacy was first a value of the internet and progressively became a myth. Those of you who watched Ed Snowden’s movie “Citizen Four” are certainly aware of privacy issues that come with the use of the Internet.
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