Regression/Tor browser bundle: erratically changing circuit and exit node for domains
To reproduce:
- start TOR Browser Bundle (tried x86 32 & 64 bit)
- go to https://www.whatsmyip.org/
- click on lock to display circuit. At first it displays a circuit with an exit node matching the IP displayed by whatsmyip.org . After a while the displayed circuit changes and it displays a different exit node
Does not happen always, maybe 1 in 3-4 times and apparently never happens on some websites while it happens very frequently on other websites.
Strangely if the page is reloaded, whatsmyip.org still displays the same IP and circuit display still displays the same but different exit node. This might appear as a display-only problem but it is not: on some sites that do track sessions across page requests I received errors that the session does not match the IP.
This appears to be a regression since two or three minor releases (a few weeks iirc).
I use the Tor Browser Bundle as downloaded by torbrowser-launcher package from Debian Bullseye, right now 11.0.10.