This article doesn’t provide any links to external, reputable sources like the Tor Project, so readers have to believe the word and methods of the author.
Also, when I see the domain on which this article is hosted, I can’t help but think about this recent comment in a different thread: Mullvad Using Gmail - #21 by dngray
From what I’ve seen that Simplified Privacy spams a lot, in fact I’ve deleted a few of their posts on our lemmy sub because they were prolific with the blogspam posts.
Not related to the article's contents, but huge red flags I noticed about simplifiedprivacy
Linux Tech Support Info – Simplified Privacy
If you try to get support on your own via public forums, you will likely have to do a lot of work on your own with the solutions they will give you. Since they’ll just give you a one sentence answer that could take you days or weeks to implement, while as we’ll walk you through each step of the way. Also, these random forum participants often don’t even know the correct way to solve your issues.