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Tor Browser does not use exit nodes from specified country on certain websites
I just realized that on certain websites the tor-browser ignores my exit node policy.
I specify a certain country as exit node but on certain websites the circuit changes on its own and I receive exit ...
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why can't I install Tor browser?
I can download the browser, but nothing happens when I click on it. Well, actually I see the Aero graphic (little blue circle) for a brief instant, then nothing. I can't get anything out of the ...
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How do you add a WebTunnel Bridge in the torcc file in linux? - Kali Linux preferably!
How do you add a WebTunnel Bridge in the torcc file in linux? - Kali Linux preferably, Thanks!
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Why is my relay node acting as a client, extending and creating circuits simultaneously? i want your help！
I simulated a small Tor network using Docker.One DA，One Client，Three relays——relay1、relay2、relay3。when I run tor on relay nodes，I found that the relay node is attempting to create and extend circuits ...
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How do I torify Firefox at about:config?
The following setting used to work for many years:
network.proxy.socks 127.0.0.1
network.proxy.socks_port 9050
network.proxy.socks_remote_dns true
Not anymore. Firefox does not access ...
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How to block connections to TOR bitcoin nodes?
I'm looking for precisely the opposite.
Any suggestions?
How to block connections to TOR nodes and only accept other nodes?
Can I configure it through the Bitcoin Core Console, in the config file?
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What are the consequences of specifying multiple `ClientTransportPlugin`s?
I have a question regarding Tor bridges. I understand that one can specify multiple Tor bridges in Tor Browser or when one runs Tor using command line. Now, my question is whether one can (and should) ...
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'Web Audio API is not supported in this browser' error as a part of WebGL build
I'm trying to open a WebGL build with an integrated audio in it, basically a WebGL Unity build.
I am using 9.5 alpha release as the latest stable version doesn't allow wasm anyhow but now even though ...
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Cannot force Tor Browser to use exit nodes from specified country
I might experience a bug here. I cannot select a specific country as exit node.
I am using debian 10 with a standalone torbrowser version 11.0.11 (I will update soon, but I don't think it is a version ...
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CloudFlare versus Tor ExitNodes setting
This question here asked a similar thing. But I want to ask a more specific one.
We know that to force Tor browser to use exit nodes from certain country, we should edit file torrc with a line like ...
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How do I decrease Tor's network traffic overhead?
How can I configure Tor to use a minimum of overhead network traffic?
My situation:
I have a weather station connected to a Raspberry Pi in a cottage, with a 4G USB dongle for network connectivity. ...
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How can I add HTTPS to my running Tor webserver
I've got a local running server and I want to add HTTPS to the requests instead of HTTP, that's it. I've seen the posts on Tor (like https://kushaldas.in/posts/get-a-tls-certificate-for-your-onion-...
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Google Recaptcha not working in TOR Browser
In our website we provide Google Recaptcha V2 for users during login process, and the user must clear the Recaptcha verification before they can login else the user cannot login to the website. This ...
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How can I setup a P2P webserver chat application through Tor
I'm new to Tor and P2P applications so I'm completely lost with what approach I should go with, if someone could give me some guidance I'd really appreciate it (I know using p2p is not good in Tor ...
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Why do people discourage using Tor with a VPN?
Why do Tor experts discourage using Tor and a VPN at the same time? Is it because of the network fingerprint, latency, or that there is no point to it?
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How to create a StackExchange account on Tor?
How can I create an account on stackexchange.com using Tor Browser?
I am an at-risk user who uses Tor for physical security. For the safety of my family, I only access the Internet with TAILS.
I need ...
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SSL/TLS: Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Insufficient DH Group Strength Vulnerability
I'm encountering an issue regarding the weak strength of the certificate key. The OVasp vulnerability scanner indicates that the Diffie-Hellman (DF) groups are weak on the service at port 444, which ...
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How do I link to the directories of the libraries needed to build a static tor binary on Ubuntu?
./configure --enable-gpl --enable-nss --enable-static-tor --with-openssl-dir=usr/bin/openssl --with-libevent-dir=/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libevent-2.1.so.7.0.1 --with-zlib-dir=/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz....
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Is there something to consider before starting a Tor non-exit Relay at home (100mbit)?
I recently increased my link to 1:1 100Mbit/s (down/up) at home. It is an unmetered connection IPv4 only.
I have set up a bridge this morning. But I know little of bridges... I do not know if it could ...
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How to resolve this? connection refused GitHub
git clone https://sherlock-project/sherlock.git
PERROR torsocks[25258]: socks5 libc connect: Connection refused (in socks5_connect () at socks5.c:202)
fatal: unable to acess 'https://sherlock-project/...
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How to get the hostname from hs_ed25519_secret_key
I'm trying to compute the v3 onion address (hostname) from the hs_ed25519_secret_key file generated by tor itself in python. I know i can just copy that file to the hidden_service dir and start tor so ...
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Polipo as a reverse proxy over TOR
I'm trying to create a reverse proxy over the Tor network but am having some trouble. I have 2 hidden services setup on Nginx on seperate servers and I want hiddenservice1 to mirror hiddenservice2. I'...
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.onion links not working at all
Ive not used tor a great deal but never had any problems searching and finding .onion sites. now when i search any .onion even duckduckgo i get the firefox error page unable to connect etc etc ...
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How do you calculate a response for a create_fast handshake?
I'm reading through the specification and looking through the code (a slightly modified torpy), and I can't figure out what the handshake_response should be.
According to https://spec.torproject.org/...
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Malware and problems loading Tor
Recently I tried going on Tor browser and couldn't get on. Got a malware warning.Still having trouble going on Tor. Even looks different. Takes up whole computer screen. I recently did have to go to a ...
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Anonymity with tor
Question : If you have the gmail app on your phone (samsung) and you not signed out of the app, if you then use a VPN then access tor, does Google have your search history of tor and is your tor ...
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Exclude IP addresses - where has it gone?
thanks for your time today.
I have recently reinstalled Tor and noticed the configuration to exclude IP addresses from the proxy has gone. This guide covers an older version.
Access local router in ...
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Certain onion sitest don't work from Whonix
The following issue is reproducible on multiple Whonix instances.
While I can access many onion sites from Whonix Tor browser, certain sites report "The connection has timed out". These ...
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Would video buffing speed mean anything when using TOR?
I was browsing on TOR the other day and watching videos on TOR. Normally from my experience, videos load very slow on TOR but this specific website was loading my videos at a fast speed. It raised a ...
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Using a compiled language instead of PHP
I was planning on writing my Tor service in PHP. But I am wondering if it would be a good idea to write it in a compiled language like C++ or Rust.
The Tor service will run on a VPS hired by a hosting ...
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Freebsd tor log file
On my FreeBSD tor isn't working correctly. But I can't see what is wrong because there is no log file.
There is a tor directory in /var/log/ but this doesn't contain any files.
Does any know what the ...
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Keyrings used for installation
I have fairly simple question regarding step 3. and step 4. in the following guide:
https://support.torproject.org/apt/tor-deb-repo/
Do they depend on each other? I tried to install Tor without step 4....
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Tor unable to connect to onion sites, able to connect to clearnet sites
I've been using tor for a while now with no issue. However a couple days ago I stopped being able to connect to tor sites. When I try to connect to a clearnet site on tor, it works perfectly fine. But ...
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Docker image Tor OBFS4 Bridge "/var/lib/tor is not owned by this user (debian-tor, 100) but by <unknown> (999)" after update from 4.7.10 to 4.8.10
I am deploying a docker image of Tor Bridge OBFS4. I use the standard docker-compose.yml and .env file with my edits. Nothing fancy, really. After seeing that my Tor Bridge Version 4.7.10 was flagged ...
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domain name substitution in Tor Browser
I'm looking for Tor Browser extension that would allow me to define aliaces mapping tor domain names to human readable names. When encountaring domain names that are present in the mapping, the ...
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Sharing an internet proxy as a router input
I want to share a Windows LAN proxy as input for a router. A VPN service makes this proxy.
internet -> router1 -> windows -> *(proxy -> router2) -> System2
I implement the scenario with ...
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Tor Won't Launch
Every time since last night when I try to launch TOR I get "Tor exited during startup. This might be due to an error in your torrc file, a bug in Tor or another program on your system, or faulty ...
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Generating new addresses
Tor v2 addresses were generated by a base32 string of the first 80 bits of the SHA1 hash of the private key (sic - public key)
How can I generate Tor v3 addresses? (basic command line tools preferred,...
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How to add subdomains to my onion site
So I have a onion website and I start it by using php -S 127.0.0.1:8080 and sudo -u debian-tor tor to start the website. I wonder if there is any solution to add a subdomain like www.mysubdomain....
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Watch videos on updated MacBook Pro and latest Tor browser
I have a MacBook. Pro and whenever I try to watch movies with my Tor browser it constantly buffers. Is there anything I can do to stop this?
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Can't connect to Tor while on school wifi
below are the logs:
2024-01-24 17:00:42.514 [NOTICE] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.
2024-01-24 17:00:42.515 [NOTICE] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.
2024-01-24 17:00:42....
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How do I change Firefox letterbox size?
privacy.resistFingerprinting.letterboxing.dimensions doesn't do anything or I don't know how to type the command correctly.
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How does Tor route DNS requests?
Tor can only handle TCP connections, but DNS is a UDP protocol. How does Tor route DNS requests over its TCP based network? Why can the same approach not be used to route all UDP traffic over Tor?
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PERROR torsocks: socks5 libc connect: Connection refused (in socks5_connect() at socks5.c:202)
Sometimes,if not often,the IP address assigned to me by TOR does not work. Is there a way to choose the exit IP numbers where my traffic should exit the Tor network ? I've found a script that tells to ...
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How Tor sites are made, without javascript?
Hello i would like to know what technology is used to make a tor site, i successfully create a tor site just a single page using html, ccs and javascript, but for security reasons many users disable ...
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Watching videos on TOR?
What affects the speed in which videos load when using hidden services on TOR? I encountered websites where videos aren't playable because they don't load or buffer and websites that have videos that ...
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Google not accepting tor requests
I noticed Google doesn’t accept search requests from tor anymore. Any way around it?
Do old versions of tor still work?
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Does relay location matter and if so to what extent?
I'm fairly new to the concept of Tor and its network infrastructure, and I've been considering setting up a Tor node to contribute to the network. My primary motivation is to assist users in oppressed ...
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list of all the entry nodes
I need to know the list of all entry nodes. Is it possible to do this?
I found here https://www.dan.me.uk/tornodes a list of all nodes or only exit nodes but I only need entry nodes.
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How to access local host through tor browser
Hi I'm doing some web development and wanted to be able to do some cross browser testing. Normally I would just point which ever browser I'm using at localhost and go from there.
Unfortunately Tor ...
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