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This tutorial is missing a crucial piece of information.

Firefox: Go to about:config, set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to true.

Otherwise you'll be leaking out information on which domains you are visiting.

Perhaps I should have made it clearer that the purpose of using a proxy in the way I illustrated was to access geographically restricted sites (such as the Amazon.com Kindle store) rather than for security/anonymity (which as you point out needs further consideration around side channel leakage etc.)

I believe that reverse DNS still leaks even if this is set in Firefox.

As long as DNS isn't blocked on the network you're on, you could change to a more neutral DNS provider (4.2.2.1 or Google)

I don't believe so. I checked with wireshark.

And there's no point in using another DNS provider if your network is compromised since they can see your requests in plaintext.

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