Suggested path to use app VM with Tor

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@SCBuergel

so I naturally lean towards the more familiar option (1) but I have the feeling that’s not a good idea

I think you are right that it may cause problems to your privacy. Have a look at this related discussion:

Can websites track me across different qubes?

I would expect that disposable VMs in Qubes provide the same set of Firefox features for all Qubes users. Unless you modified your browser in some way (and unless screen resolutions are different), our fingerprints should just coincide. However, every time I check the fingerprinting in Qubes, I get the result that I am unique among millions (amiunique) / hundreds of thousands (panopticlick) of users. It happends both on Debian and on Fedora. How is this possible? Do you get the same results? We…