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Rodrigo de Azevedo
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How youtube was YouTube able to deanonymize torTor?

I was using torthe Tor browser (in safer mode in tails-5.2 with default settings, with no addon or any modification) to browse youtubeYouTube. While I was searching for pythonPython tutorials, it offered that in the language of my region. How did youtubeYouTube figure it out even in torTor?

Note: I used a fresh tails with no persistent storage or any other modifications. Also, I never searched youtubeYouTube in my language or watched any content of my region before. So youtubeHence, YouTube should have no knowledge of my language, isn't it? I tried multiple times rebooting tails and searched (with & without bridge) again only for pythonPython (nothing before that).Also Also, I tried resetting identity and different circuits. But every time it was offering contents in my language  (along with englishEnglish).

How is it even possible? Is it a bug? Or google did Google perform a correlation? Or did webrtc/dns leak  (torTor shouldn't have this issue)? Or cookie/javascript issues? Or ANYTHING ELSEanything else?

How youtube was able to deanonymize tor?

I was using tor browser (in safer mode in tails-5.2 with default settings, with no addon or any modification) to browse youtube. While I was searching for python tutorials, it offered that in language of my region. How did youtube figure it out even in tor?

Note: I used a fresh tails with no persistent storage or any other modifications. Also I never searched youtube in my language or watched any content of my region before. So youtube should have no knowledge of my language, isn't it? I tried multiple times rebooting tails and searched (with & without bridge) again only for python(nothing before that).Also I tried resetting identity and different circuits. But every time it was offering contents in my language(along with english).

How is it even possible? Is it a bug? Or google did a correlation? Or webrtc/dns leak(tor shouldn't have this issue)? Or cookie/javascript issues? Or ANYTHING ELSE?

How was YouTube able to deanonymize Tor?

I was using the Tor browser (in safer mode in tails-5.2 with default settings, with no addon or any modification) to browse YouTube. While I was searching for Python tutorials, it offered that in the language of my region. How did YouTube figure it out even in Tor?

Note: I used a fresh tails with no persistent storage or any other modifications. Also, I never searched YouTube in my language or watched any content of my region before. Hence, YouTube should have no knowledge of my language, isn't it? I tried multiple times rebooting tails and searched (with & without bridge) again only for Python (nothing before that). Also, I tried resetting identity and different circuits. But every time it was offering contents in my language  (along with English).

How is it even possible? Is it a bug? Or did Google perform a correlation? Or did webrtc/dns leak  (Tor shouldn't have this issue)? Or cookie/javascript issues? Or anything else?

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How youtube was able to deanonymize tor?

I was using tor browser (in safer mode in tails-5.2 with default settings, with no addon or any modification) to browse youtube. While I was searching for python tutorials, it offered that in language of my region. How did youtube figure it out even in tor?

Note: I used a fresh tails with no persistent storage or any other modifications. Also I never searched youtube in my language or watched any content of my region before. So youtube should have no knowledge of my language, isn't it? I tried multiple times rebooting tails and searched (with & without bridge) again only for python(nothing before that).Also I tried resetting identity and different circuits. But every time it was offering contents in my language(along with english).

How is it even possible? Is it a bug? Or google did a correlation? Or webrtc/dns leak(tor shouldn't have this issue)? Or cookie/javascript issues? Or ANYTHING ELSE?