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Discussion => Off topic => Topic started by: Megatherium on June 19, 2011, 05:16 pm

Title: Further currency display
Post by: Megatherium on June 19, 2011, 05:16 pm
Just found out that by using this extension for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/anbfhidldjknonaihbalghlebaijealk I can now see the prices in btc, € and $ simultaneously. Just a small thing I though you guys'd appreciate.
Title: Re: Further currency display
Post by: Botulism on June 22, 2011, 01:05 am
Seems interesting. Too bad I only use firefox with tor button for my tor stuff :P
Title: Re: Further currency display
Post by: rake on June 22, 2011, 01:14 am
For those using a virtual machine which detaches the browser from the Tor proxy, this could be useful.
Title: Re: Further currency display
Post by: Kind Bud on June 22, 2011, 03:53 am
Just a reminder for everyone to always be careful about URLs.
Title: Re: Further currency display
Post by: nomad bloodbath on June 22, 2011, 10:12 pm
Like Kind Bud said Clearnet* URLS do not belong in Tor Browsers

*(all non .onion sites)

:D
Title: Re: Further currency display
Post by: Megatherium on June 24, 2011, 02:23 pm
I'm probably being ignorant here and going offtopic, but why not? With tracking services I see the danger of visiting them via tor, what reason is there to generelly steer away from clearnet while using tor? I'm really at loss here. A short explanation or a link to a FAQ would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: Oh, this just came to my mind: there's a firefox addon called foxyproxy with which you could govern that it only utilizes your local proxy (meaning for) for .onion URLs. Would that be a nice way eliminate the manual switching?
Title: Re: Further currency display
Post by: CrunchyFrog on June 24, 2011, 11:31 pm
> With tracking services I see the danger of visiting them via tor, what reason is there to generelly steer away from clearnet while using tor?

Short answer: few if any, aside from shipping and banking sites. [1]

Unless you think the entire Tor project is basically just *bullshit*.  In which case why are you using it for .onion sites?

[1] see dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=229.msg1245
Title: Re: Further currency display
Post by: Megatherium on June 25, 2011, 11:54 am
Thanks for that one, sir. It's always good to learn something new.