Replying to kreyszig

But why would it need to know if Tor is running? It should simply be based on the "Active Tor Engine" setting, no? I.e. when set to Orbot, never attempt to start the proxy, but attempt to start ot if set to Internal?
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Vitor Pamplona 11mo ago

When the app starts, it access several things before the user is logged in. Since we did the privacy preference per account, there is no preference when the app is still logging the user in. In that short time, Tor is running. But it will close after that once the user logs in.

That being said, I think a version of Tor will always be required moving forward. There are just too many things in Nostr that need a Tor connection to access, like onion urls and so on.

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kreyszig 11mo ago

I think it makes sense to have the privacy options per account, but could the "Active Tor Engine" and "Orbot SOCKS port" be app-wide maybe?

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Vitor Pamplona 11mo ago

It's just confusing to put similar settings in separate pages.. I will see what I can do

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kreyszig 11mo ago

Without moving it, maybe there would be a way to tell the user these two network settings are not tied to one nsec as opposed to the privacy settings...