Local browser homepage for Tor Browser in Whonix

Development
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Understood.

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Whonix News Telegram
Archived News

These URLs doesnt look needed, Why telegram exist while we have forums/discourse news section? Even its more secure to make the user visit forums since its support onion connection.

DuckDuckGo

Not sure why its at the bottom of the page while its the default search engine of TB, I see no value point of having it again. (you can replace it with one of searx search engines similar to yacy or just remove it)

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In case whonix.org is down, notifications can be posted there.

In case telegram blocks connections from the Tor network it can be circumvented using web archive.

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  • Doesn’t work anymore

https://search.yacy.net/

  • Heavily relied on cloudflare and need captcha sometimes very much useless over tor

https://www.ecosia.org/

  • Metager has an onion instance

http://metagerv65pwclop2rsfzg4jwowpavpwd6grhhlvdgsswvo6ii4akgyd.onion/en

  • DDG has onion (acutally its default TB search engine)

https://duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad.onion

good replacement to be added:

ahmia:

http://juhanurmihxlp77nkq76byazcldy2hlmovfu2epvl5ankdibsot4csyd.onion/

brave:

https://search.brave4u7jddbv7cyviptqjc7jusxh72uik7zt6adtckl5f4nwy2v72qd.onion/

Change TB link to onion services link:

http://2gzyxa5ihm7nsggfxnu52rck2vv4rvmdlkiu3zzui5du4xyclen53wid.onion/index.html

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Could you please pull request(s) for this?

For onions, we need to add evidence that the onion belongs to the official domain. For that, please add a comment to the html source code.

Syntax:

<!-- comment -->

Example:

<!-- Write some useful comment. Add web archived link to evidence the onion belong to the official domain. -->

For reference:

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Done:

For TPO only i will put here:

https://archive.ph/ANYXl

Brave logo:

Brave (web browser) - Wikipedia

or just the head

https://cryptoradar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Brave-logo.png

Ahmia logo:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ahmia/ahmia-site/master/ahmia-logotype.png

or only the A

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/ahmia.fi.ico

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Thank you for the pull request! Merged.

Ahmia logo is currently unresolved, broken.

This is too big.

Resolution is far too low.

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this one?

or any of these:

https://etc.usf.edu/presentations/extras/letters/varsity_letters/53/13/index.html

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https://www.whonix.org/wiki/File:Search-ahmia.png

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Image issue resolved.

These changes are now in the testers repository.

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Will reply soon.

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Related, posted here an update regarding the 2022 end of year donation banner campaign:

To answer your suggestion, coincidentally, just a day earlier or so work was done to ship the same banner in Whonix Welcome Page in Tor Browser. An update to whonix-welcome-page will be pushed in the next few days.

The banner does not result in making any external connections. All contents are load locally unless the user clicks a link.

The 2022 end of year banner campaign will automatically end on 01.01.2023.

Related repositories:

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Remove peekier from TB start page as its not anymore accessible for users to search without payment, and now redirecting to different company called kagi.

peekieremove
peekieremove1280×960 157 KB

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I think i can see Mojeek good replacement for it:

logo:

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henry@henry· 11 months ago Developer
@JeremyRand I would like to be able to drop TOR_DEFAULT_HOMEPAGE, and I think Whonix is the only known place that uses it.

Bug: Environment variable TOR_DEFAULT_HOMEPAGE is no longer honored when Tor Browser is restarted using its new identity button.

Maybe when Tor Project completes Enable build of rpm and deb packages in Tor Browser releases (#41179) · Issues · The Tor Project / Applications / tor-browser-build · GitLab this can be solved using something similar to Debian’s Firefox /etc/firefox-esr configuration folder.

Related: Would stable Tor Browser deb package help or burden whonix devs?