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Does my ISP know what sites I have visited if I am using Tor?

Actually you need to run Tor as a router, only then you'll never leak a DNS info, but there's also a trick with persistent cookies: if you've visited some sites from your PC before going through Tor ...
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How do Google servers discriminate anonymous users?

Error 403 and CAPTCHA are appearing because the exit node you're using is not dedicated to you only: Many people are using it, including to access Google and other services. It seems - on a website ...
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What encryption algorithms does Tor use?

What encryption algorithms does Tor use? See the following sections of the Tor Protocol Specification: 0.2 Security parameters 0.3 Ciphers Isn't RSA 1024 considered weak? 1024 hasn't been broken ...
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How can website server recognize incoming Tor or VPN connection?

The list of exit nodes is well known so it's trivial for any system to look up into that list and see if any incoming connection comes from any of them.
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Internet censored (Kazakhstan)

Use Pluggable Transports. Choose Configure (or accessed under the Green Onion Menu -> Tor Network Settings) Choose 'My ISP block connections...'. Choose obfs4, meek-azure or meek-amazon. Select Okay. ...
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Is Tor completely anonymous?

This setup may, or may not, be completely anonymous, depending on a whole bunch of factors, some extremely subtle. Adding a VPN to Tor basically never improves anonymity, though. Exactly how someone ...
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Can Tor be used with applications other than Web browsers?

Applications that support SOCKS As mentioned by @zhenech any application that supports SOCKS can be used with Tor. Here are few examples that show your IP changing via an IP identifying website: ...
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Which node(s), if any, in the circuit for a hidden service, can see the URI of a request to a hidden service?

(Assuming the URL is http://X.onion?foo=bar) One relay (HSDir) knows that someone (but not who) wanted to look up the record for where to leave a message to request to talk to "X". Another relay (...
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Is a server's response to a Tor browser query encrypted by the Tor nodes when it transits the Tor circuit in the reverse direction?

If a Tor browser makes a request of a server on the Internet, it will be encrypted several times by the Tor browser before it leaves the client. Correct. Once for each Tor relay, which is a ...
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Using Tor to comment on blogs and forums?

Yes, you can use Tor to do whatever you can do on the web, including commenting on blogs, forums, ... As long as they do not block Tor exit relays (for example you wont be able to 'comment' on ...
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YouTube anonymity through Tor

The warning is from DuckDuckGo. It means that your browser still has to connect to YouTube even if you watch the video "here". My question is what does DuckDuckGo mean by this. Are they given ...
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how to send email anonymous from Gmail

You can't. If you want to stay anonymous, you cannot send an email through Gmail as you will lose your anonymity. One of the main things not to do while using Tor is to use Google services since your ...
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how to send email anonymous from Gmail

If you want to stay anonymous, you need to think about every step when using your mail provider. Registering your account Accessing your mail account Reading your mails Writing your mails You have ...
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Designing P2P application over Tor

"the IP for other users to connect to?" Onion services don't use IPs. You should use SOCKS5's remote hostname functionality, this hands over the hostname to Tor and will ensure you do not ...
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Can some one ping tails/tor

I know that my traffic is encrypted and Tor scrubs my information on its way to the first node. Tor does not change/censor the data you transfer, it just encrypts it with the public keys of the ...
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Does using HTTP break my anonymity?

Is my anonymity at risk by not using HTTPS? Yes; and any information you are sending should be considered compromised. HTTPS (HTTP over TLS/SSL, or HTTP Secure) encrypts the data traveling between ...
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Security of Tor compared to VPN

That random site who will make money in selling you a VPN service is being "liberal with the truth". Lets do a point by point: Their "Tor disadvantages" "It is very slow" Not always, you can ...
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Will Flash compromise content viewing to ISP?

Yes. Without even starting on the subject of it's comically long list of exploits, many of which have been discovered because they were already in use in the wild as a 0day, it will entirely break ...
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Can I Use Tails in One Stick of USB? ( 8Gb) instead of 2 (4Gb) Stick

Yes, but only under certain circumstances. The reason it is recommending 2 USBs is that for features like encrypted persist storage and incremental updates it has to be installed from the Tails ...
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when will riffle be release? anyone know? riffle is new technology that provide better anonymity than tor

Riffle, hOR.NET and many other promising on paper projects are seem to be either a hoax, or a stale-development ones. No release date for all of them - even for the source, that makes most of concerns ...
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Why does Tor not pre-include Privacy Badger or Disconnect add-ons?

Adding plugins almost always creates as many issues at it solves (assuming those things needed solving in the first place). While I wasn't able to locate anything on Disconnect, I remembered that ...
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is it safe to download files through TOR?

Yes, it is safe to download files. However, it is almost never safe to open them outside of Tor Browser or a special environment. Even non-executable files (documents, videos, audio files, etc) can ...
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Is Tor network traceable

Tor connections are in general secure. However for a global adversary it would be possible to trace a Tor connection back to a user. It is not known whether such a global adversary exists or if ...
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How did the FBI find the IP address of the Freedom Hosting servers?

According to this FAQ from the EFF, Freedom Host had a publicly visible IP address that allowed the FBI to physically seize their server: In December 2014, the FBI received a tip from a foreign law ...
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Add-ons on Tor Browser - what if it was universal?

You are correct, if everyone had these plugins then everyone would look the same. However, let me share a couple of quotes: From the FAQ: Some people have suggested we include ad-blocking ...
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Releasing a controversial movie torrent using Tor Network for security

I know this isn't exactly what you asked for, but because Bittorrent over Tor isn't considered the best thing to to there are other options. Depending on what you mean by "movie", another option ...
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Releasing a controversial movie torrent using Tor Network for security

At Tor blog they say it is not good idea to seed via Tor network. I think best bet of yours would be using Tor browser to contact anonymously someone from non-standard country to seed the torrent for ...
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How can BitTorrent traffic be anonymized with Tor?

In theory, it doesn't compromise it any more than torrenting already does. What you should be wary of is cross-contamination, fetching a torrent over Tor then loading into your torrent client. The ...
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Sending anonymous email

StartMail, https://www.startmail.com/ Cost: US$59.95 per year. StartMail never records and never saves your IP address. Your connection is via secure HTTPS encryption. StartMail has built-in PGP ...
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