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Ubuntu is an operating system which is based on GNU/Linux.

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How to use Tor with Google Chrome?

From the Arch Linux Wiki: chromium --proxy-server="socks5://127.0.0.1:9050" --host-resolver-rules="MAP * 0.0.0.0 , EXCLUDE myproxy" However as the wiki explicitly warns: this will be used for fetch …
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Torsocks vs Proxychains?

You should prefer torsocks over proxychains, since torsocks is intended to block potential leaks. Especially in cases with tools like youtube-dl which might try to pass over execution to programs tha …
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Trying to config hidden service, but encounter folder permission error

edit: as an aside, that's an oldish version of Tor you're running, you should probably consider following the guide to use the Tor Projects ubuntu repos, as ubuntu tends to ship outdated versions of Tor … : https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html#ubuntu
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find needed details of my own private obfs4 Tor bridge

From the obfs4proxy README: The autogenerated obfs4 bridge parameters are placed in DataDir/pt_state/obfs4_state.json. To ease deployment, the client side bridge line is written to DataDir …
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How to use multiple profiles with Tor?

This won't work, given that Tor Browser ships with a specific default profile which it uses, and needs to use to operate properly, creating and utilising different profiles will cause issues. Instead …
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How to perform NAT Punching with Tor

The NAT punching properties described in the video, are those of onion services. These are a default property of onion services. Normally if you've providing a service that you want to be accessible …
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ENVError while starting obfsproxy

obfsproxy should be setup inside of torrc if you wish to use it with tor, it shouldn't be executed seperately. The managed flag indicates that the opening process will be "managing" it, in this case t …
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http status code 404 (Not found)

It's trying to lookup a relay that seems to no longer exist, specifically whatever relay corresponds to the 58......88C fingerprint. It's possible that it does still exist, it just wasn't found on th …
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How can I have tor and tor-browser both installed?

The solution is to uninstall the dodgy tor-browser package and either use torbrowser-launcher from the Ubuntu package repos or download Tor Browser directly from the Tor Project website or one of it's …
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Weird htop output? (screenshot)

These are threads, this is normal. They're not multiple instances of firefox but instead a single instance that has multiple threads created for it. This may be more apparent if you press F5 to view …
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Guard Nodes: how long is too long?

Yes, that is normal. The guard rotation periods were increased, and the number of guards chosen was reduced. The idea being that a passive adversary might want to run some percentage of Tor relays (g …
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Should I change the timezone of my laptop to UTC?

The Tor daemon doesn't leak timezone, if it did it would split users anonymity sets. Relays shouldn't be able to distinguish sets of users, this would allow them to and would break some of the protect …
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tor is not working in ubuntu 14.06

You're in the wrong directory. The screenshot shows you running the command from your home directory (~) but the file exists in your Downloads directory (~/Downloads). Either: run cd Downloads then …
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Is it safe to pipe profanity through torsocks?

Generally speaking, if it works with torsocks wrapping it, it should be fine. torsocks can cause some features to break but it shouldn't result in any leaks under normal circumstances. It's hard to …
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Do I need a firewall and or Virus protection software

Ubuntu comes with a firewall, called ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) which should suffice, it is a front end to the Linux iptables packet filter. …
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