[tor-talk] Why so may exit node IP addresses in the TBB?

blobby at openmailbox.org blobby at openmailbox.org
Fri Jul 22 15:48:37 UTC 2016


Sure, I get the logic. I'm just wondering when it started. I'm sure that 
even a few weeks ago there was one IP used irrespective of how many 
pages you had opened simultaneously in the TBB.

On 2016-07-22 15:44, David Olofsson wrote:
> I assume that it is so that data entered on an assumed http website 
> cannot
> be used to identify your data to other sites. Simply, to decouple the
> sifferent sessions you're having on different sites.
> 
> On 22 Jul 2016 16:21, <blobby at openmailbox.org> wrote:
> 
>> Has the TBB changed the way that IP addresses are allocated?
>> 
>> It used to be that, if you opened five sites in TBB, all five would 
>> use
>> the same exit node. Now it appears that each of the five sites has the 
>> IP
>> address of a different exit node.
>> 
>> Is this a new policy? What is the purpose?
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