Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers?

[Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com>]

Tor adds overhead because it is another layer of encapsulation (on top 
of TCP/IP), it adds padding to messages (to improve confidentiality), 
and it needs to transmit extra data because of its cryptographic design 
(signatures, MAC, public keys). It doesn't seems like a good approach 
since the goal is to decrease transference (bandwidth).

In any case, Tor itself won't get rid of any videos; you may notice that 
effect when using the Tor browser bundle because of the browser add-ons, 
especially NoScript.

El 10/10/15 a las 12:33, Andrew McGlashan escribió:
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> On 11/10/2015 3:07 AM, brian wrote:
> > My wife and I live out in the wilds of Maine, and the only
> > internet service we can get is satellite, which means a maximum of
> > 250 MB total up and down per day. That allowance gets drained away
> > by these damned autoplay videos on various news sites. Pat is using
> > Wheezy, I'm using Jessie - short of going back to Lynx, does anyone
> > have any recommendations for a browser which can be configured NOT
> > to autostart videos? I'm not talking just on YouTube or similar
> > sites - there are a zillion extensions to do that for Firefox, but
> > they don't work on other sites, e.g. the New York Times.
>
> Perhaps consider Tor browser bundle or TAILS ?
>
> [1] https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
> [2] https://tails.boum.org/
>
> Kind Regards
> AndrewM
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