I have recently started to care more about my privacy and anonymity, so I am just scratching the surface and still don’t know much about it. I know that you should not log into any accounts with sensitive information while using the Tor browser to prevent your identity from being leaked. What about websites (like Lemmy, Masterdon, etc.) that can’t leak personal data because I never provide any directly? I use Mullvad + alias email addresses to log in.
What if I logged into my Lemmy account outside of Tor without a VPN one single time? So Lemmy should have received my real IP and location at some point. Could someone find personal data because of this single, unprotected login while I’m browsing Lemmy through Tor?
Thanks for any answers and explanations!
Check the url and domain is correct and make sure HTTPS is on. It should be fine. I use Tor for Lemmy all the time.
(Not that it will stop the NSA or anything, but like… I wanna waste their time trying to trace the connection. If they wanna find me, they’ll need to spend the extra time to do their investigations)
Yea, you slip up once, its essentially as if you never used Tor. Don’t accidentally use a normal browser to log in lol 😉
If you want an “anonymous” account. You have to create the account using Tor, then only ever use it over Tor.
Otherwise, you should just use clearnet, since there’s no point of using Tor sometimes and clearnet on other times.