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		proliferation on July 8, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How to stay completely free from prying ey... What's the advantage of creating one of these as opposed to just connecting to Tor with your computer?

deadfall on July 9, 2013 [–]

All traffic from the computer proxy through Tor e.g. Skype, Spotify, Chrome...

arshsingh on July 9, 2013 | [–]

What if i run tor on my computer and apply a system wide proxy through that port (9050 by default), is that any different from your setup ?

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