• How does an onion with a tor browser protect privacy please?

    From socialite@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 26 08:32:54 2023
    If I log into protonmail I have two choices
    regular login
    onion login

    The regular address is https://protonmail.com
    The onion address is at https://protonmail/com/tor & ends with ".onion"

    While you can't get to the onion address with a "regular" browser, you can
    get to both addresses with the tor browser bundle, so other than that, they look and act the same as far as I can tell (onion versus regular with tor).

    But I'm not spying on me (or anyone, for that matter).
    So I must be missing the special onion privacy stuff I guess.

    What's so special about the protonmail onion address anyway?
    (other than you have to use a tor browser to get to it)

    What confuses me is you can get to both the regular and onion address using
    the tor browser bundle so that's why I'm asking what the difference is.

    I tried to look here to figure out what's different https://proton.me/blog/tor-encrypted-email

    But honestly, I didn't understand how the onion helps if you use a tor
    browser to go to the regular protonmail url versus the onion address.

    Can you give me a quick explanation of how onion protect privacy by
    comparing what's different between these two tor browser scenarios?

    Tor browser to the protonmail regular site
    Tor browser to the protonmail onion site

    TIA

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  • From YK@21:1/5 to socialite on Sun Apr 30 20:54:50 2023
    On 4/26/2023 2:32 AM, socialite wrote:
    Can you give me a quick explanation of how onion protect privacy by
    comparing what's different between these two tor browser scenarios?

    No certifying authority is needed for onion routing end-to-end encryption.

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