On 3/28/19, André Rodier <an...@rodier.me> wrote: > On 2019-03-28 16:12, John Hasler wrote: >> tomas writes: >>> No. Because the least Google track is your IP address. It is true that >>> Tor is meant to obscure your IP address, but "trackers", in your use >>> of the word, are mostly Javascript code snippets (sometimes invisible >>> images and things like that) made to convince your browser to betray >>> you. And it'll betray you even through Tor. >> >> But JS trackers are easily blocked by simply disallowing JS. > > I have not seen any valid reason to download packages over tor, neither > to use the apt-transport-tor package.
If you get your packages from an .onion site you get end-to-end encryption as well as hiding which packages you've downloaded from whoever is watching your network traffic. ref https://bits.debian.org/2016/08/debian-and-tor-services-available-as-onion-services.html Regards Lee
