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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: murungu on January 22, 2013, 04:35 pm
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For those of you who think we've done too mutt drgz on this title, let us explain that Duck Duck Go (DDG) is an indy Search Engine that supposedly leaves no trace.
When we first came to the road we used it in addition to TOR bundle and it was fine.
We then moved countries, and re-established my links to SR but were having all sorts of constant issues, the captcha was not working 9 out of 10 times (you gotta know how annoying that is!) pages were not loading and giving timeouts and 400 errors all over the place.
Worse of all, even though we're typing the SR addy into DDG address box, we're being taken to the Proxy onion.to that the clearnet uses to access the Road (not good!)
Well, we asked about it on here and then decided to switch stuff off one by one, first we tried the 'Noscript' function, there was no change.
Then we tried disabling our regular firewall, no change
Finally, we thought OK what if the problem is with the otherwise cool DDG, so we just typed SR directly into TOR mounted Firefox search engine, and EVERYTHING works great again.
DDG was the problem. It sucks cos it was a promising browser, but security is more important.
Just thot we'd share that and give something back to this part of the forum.
m.
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Why would you have to search for the SR URL? Don't you have it recorded somewhere so you can just put it in the browser's address bar, and go directly to it?
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The fact you went to a .onion.to site is nothing to do with DuckDuckGo. You should be well aware that it will point you to the closest match it can make a connection to.
Besides, the silkroad address is vey easy to remember;
silkroad
vb (programming language)
5piz3r (5 pizzas)
.onion
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The fact you went to a .onion.to site is nothing to do with DuckDuckGo. You should be well aware that it will point you to the closest match it can make a connection to.
Besides, the silkroad address is vey easy to remember;
silkroad
vb (programming language)
5piz3r (5 pizzas)
.onion
This. Also, if you've been vending and going through the onion.to proxy service thing, I strongly recommend that you consider your level of risk and possible surveillance as much greater than the average vendor.
That is not safe. That is not safe at all. Whether it will really get you caught I can't say, but it's a fact: you do not want to be conducting business through any proxy but Tor itself, and only directly via [Computer] <-> [Tor program] <-> [Silk Road].
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The fact you went to a .onion.to site is nothing to do with DuckDuckGo. You should be well aware that it will point you to the closest match it can make a connection to.
Besides, the silkroad address is vey easy to remember;
silkroad
vb (programming language)
5piz3r (5 pizzas)
.onion
This. Also, if you've been vending and going through the onion.to proxy service thing, I strongly recommend that you consider your level of risk and possible surveillance as much greater than the average vendor.
That is not safe. That is not safe at all. Whether it will really get you caught I can't say, but it's a fact: you do not want to be conducting business through any proxy but Tor itself, and only directly via [Computer] <-> [Tor program] <-> [Silk Road].
SS is spot on. :) Here is what is written in the SR Buyer's Guide -
If you are reading this now, you have at least figured out how to access a tor hidden service, good job :) You have either installed tor and configured your browser to use it, or you are using a proxy such as tor2web. We strongly encourage you to connect to the hidden service directly rather than going through a proxy as it is much more secure and anonymous. The Tor Browser Bundle is available for all major platforms.