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[Max Kristen <max@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So you are saying it is possible to implement a setting, to enable all
phone traffic to go through tor? This would be an amazing feature, and
very distinct from all other platforms.

 
Am Montag, den 14.12.2015, 13:49 +0100 schrieb Olivier Tilloy:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Mark <j.m.holmes@xxxxxx> wrote:
>         I want 
>         to congratulate people on the recent developments within the browser. 
>         For political reasons I've started taking privacy seriously. I wonder if 
>         Tor (I know they're closed source) could be persuaded to work with your 
>         browser as they did with Firefox?
> 
> 
> Tor is open-source, and available in ubuntu. Making it work with
> webbrowser-app on a phone should just be a matter of installing the
> tor package (the device will need to be made writeable) and setting
> the correct environment variables to use localhost:9050 as a socks
> proxy.
> 
> 
> In theory this should be enough. In practice it looks like there’s a
> bug in oxide (the web engine that powers webbrowser-app) that prevents
> it from correctly using the socks proxy.
> See https://launchpad.net/bugs/1525883.
> 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> 
>  Olivier