Tor is one of the most sophisticated browsers that lets users surf the internet anonymously. You have successfully disabled JavaScript on the Tor browser. Step6: Click on the safest option and JavaScript will be disabled. Step5: When you click on Settings and privacy, scroll down until you find security option: Step4: Now the settings tab will open where you have to open up the “privacy & security” settings by clicking on the “Privacy & security” option from the left menu bar of the viewscreen: Step3: When you click on the menu bar symbol a menu will open as shown in the above screenshot, after which look for options and click on it. Step2: Click on the menu symbol or hamburger icon located at the top right corner of the Tor browser: Now that we know why disabling JavaScript is important let us continue and go through all the steps to actually achieve our purpose of disabling JavaScript in the Tor browser: It happened back in 2013 where hackers took advantage of the Noscript feature being disabled in the Tor browser and extracted users IP addresses and Mac addresses. It is important to disable JavaScript in Tor for many security reasons as the Tor browser’s earlier versions were vulnerable to JavaScript attacks because JavaScript provides a backdoor to the hacker or attacker from which the attacker can track the user using the user’s provided session details. Why is it important to disable JavaScript? With Tor, we can browse the internet anonymously as it involves a number of volunteer relays that ensure the bouncing of internet traffic and guarantee that the user browsing is not monitored. Nowadays, people use it for exactly the same reason ie to keep their privacy and anonymity on the browser. Tor is a browser that is getting popular day by day and was originally developed in the mid-1990s for the purpose of communicating in an anonymous and secure manner. JavaScript is so popular because of its simple and intuitive syntax as well as being easily implementable and supported by HTML. JavaScript is used to create web applications or web pages and is used by 95 percent of websites in the world. Lightweight means easy to implement as well as minimalist features and syntax. Javascript was first introduced in 1995 and it is one of the most popular computer programming languages that is lightweight and dynamic.
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