{"id":855,"date":"2024-06-20T21:01:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T21:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/tor-browser-13-5-enhanced-fingerprinting-protections-and-optimized-bridge-settings\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T07:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T07:00:15","slug":"tor-browser-13-5-enhanced-fingerprinting-protections-and-optimized-bridge-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/tor-browser-13-5-enhanced-fingerprinting-protections-and-optimized-bridge-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Tor Browser 13.5: Enhanced Fingerprinting Protections and Optimized Bridge Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Tor Browser 13.5, an open-source web browser for browsing the Web without tracking, surveillance, or censorship, has been released today as a major update that brings enhancements to desktop and mobile.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Coming more than eight months after Tor Browser 13.0, the Tor Browser 13.5 release introduces an improved user experience of the fingerprinting protections by changing the visual design of the letterboxing implementation to avoid distracting users from the content they\u2019re trying to view.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In addition, Tor Browser 13.5 introduces a new Letterboxing section in General Settings where users will find the options to force <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/tor-browser-12-0-released-with-multi-locale-support-based-on-firefox-102-esr-series\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tor Browser<\/a><\/strong> to remember the last known window size, as well as to choose the alignment of the letterbox either at the top or middle of the browser window.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u201cAlthough the existing implementation of letterboxing works excellently to protect you from fingerprinting, its visual design would often be misinterpreted by new users either as a bug with the browser or rendering issue with the website they\u2019re browsing,\u201d said the devs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>This release also brings various refinements to Connection Settings for bridge users, including a revamped bridge cards design with improved sharing features and a single, more compact card with the bridge\u2019s source pre-labeled, a new \u201cFind more bridges\u201d section designed to help users find more bridges elsewhere, and improved management of multiple bridges.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>On top of that, Tor Browser 13.5 simplifies the design of Onion site errors to make them more consistent with the other kinds of Network Errors available in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/tor-browser-11-5-adds-censorship-detection-circumvention-https-only-mode-by-default\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tor Browser<\/a><\/strong>, introduces a new, native connection experience for Android users with automatic connection support, and relocates the Tor logs to a new \u201cConnection Settings\u201d section in Settings.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, numerous bugs were addressed so make sure that you check the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.torproject.org\/new-release-tor-browser-135\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">full changelog<\/a><\/em> for all the technical details. 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