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Cake day: March 15th, 2025

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  • It’s impossible to know for sure whether you are tracked or not, but even the most basic fingerprinting mechanisms check browser version, and Reddit has advanced fingerprinting mechanisms to detect ban evasion. Couple that with the fact that 90% of my searches led me to Reddit, and it’s easy to conclude that Reddit correlated all my visits using my fingerprint, and thus has a history of all the things I have searched and been interested in for the past year, and sold that to Google. And Google has enough data on me from back when I used to use Google services, that they were probably able to link that activity to my real identity.





  • Are you saying that this bug would have been reported there? I don’t think I ever saw it, and I honestly doubt it was ever posted there. Unless you’re talking about the browser update announcements, but I would still need to check the Help > About page of my browser to notice that it didn’t match the latest version. As mentioned in my post, the Flatpak was updating like usual, the updates just weren’t affecting the browser.

    Really, the main reason I made the post was to see if anybody else was affected, and see how other people avoided the bug. And aside from one other user, it really seems like nobody else was affected, which is surprising to me. The only reasons I can come up with are:

    1. nobody installs Tor Browser using the Flatpak
    2. everybody manually checks their browser versions
    3. everybody installed or re-installed Tor Browser within the last year

    Based on the comments I suspect #1 is the main cause. Which makes me lose trust in Flatpaks quite a bit. After all, if nobody is using them, then maintainers have less incentive to maintain them, and the worse they get.