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Board Bitcoin Discussion
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Re: Privacy-o-meter, a free tool to assess the privacy level of your BTC transaction
by
o_e_l_e_o
on 29/06/2020, 14:22:25 UTC
⭐ Merited by Foxpup (2)
I totally forget number of Bitcoin transaction, but you still could :
1. Check it with Tor Browser to reduce privacy risks
2. Make request for your address and some random address (e.g. another output address of CoinJoin transaction)
I've never quite understood why people use a random website to check if their own transaction has confirmed. Once you've broadcast your transaction you can just monitor its progress through your wallet. Opening up a block explorer and continually refreshing a specific transaction is pretty much a guarantee to the block explorer that you made that transaction, and they can link your transactions and addresses to your IP, your browser fingerprint, and other information about you. The same is true of third parties like Cloudflare or Captcha services.

For what it's worth, Blockchair probably have the best Privacy Policy of any block explorer, which you can read here: https://blockchair.com/privacy.

I still wouldn't advocate for trusting any third party with your privacy, though. If you are going to look up transactions on a block explorer, use Tor.