Is socks5 better than socks5t in privoxy?

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/etc/privoxy/config
It is said that socks5 uses remote DNS to solve DNS while socks5t does not, is it real? And causing DNS leak?

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So thats new. I googled that and if I am reading this correctly the difference between SOCKS5 and SOCKS5t is that SOCKS5 when you use it, it will send your DNS query say for “alongonionaddressalphabetagammadeltaepsilonzetaetatheta1.onion” (or whatever clearnet server you are accessing) through tor and the server “alongonionaddressalphabetagammadeltaepsilonzetaetatheta1.onion” will also perform this DNS query.

I wouldn’t say this is a DNS leak, more of a way to make DNS resolution over Tor a little bit more efficient.

https://lists.privoxy.org/pipermail/privoxy-users/2016-July/000027.html

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forward-socks5t

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There is so few information on the internet about the point of forward-socks5t.
And are you saying socks5t will not sending DNS query through tor?

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well what that link I posed shows is that socks5t will send DNS queries through tor just like socks5. However it will send less queries than socks5.

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Looks that I am still invisible using socks5t, Thank you very much.