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Unable to start Tor browser using an account other than the one it was installed with (Windows 7)
A solution that doesn't break all your shortcuts:
Right-click the Tor Browser folder (which you probably installed to Program Files)
Properties --> Security --> (Your username) --> Edit --> (Your ...
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Failed to connect to Tor network?
The first warning in the logs is this:
11/6/2015 7:05:53 AM.400 [WARN] Our clock is 1 days, 21 hours, 54 minutes behind the time published in the consensus network status document (2015-11-08 10:00:...
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Tor permission error
I found out that tor was blocked by SElinux.
I disabled SElinux and everything was working.
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Tor permission error
When you want to start via command line you need to do it as the correct user. As the message says it expects debian-tor. So call Tor in the following way:
sudo -u debian-tor tor
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Can't connect to the Tor Network
It's a big probability that it was a clock skew: on reboot many OS'es and distro's are updating the local time using NTP protocol, so - once you've got rebooted you had an accurate time and was able ...
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Secure Connection Failed for every web page?
This worked for me: https://i.stack.imgur.com/nkCDD.jpg
I even disabled Kaspersky and it wouldn't work so can't explain it, but finally after 3 days it's working!!
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Refreshed Tor and lost log-in,home page and icons
The Tor Browser Bundle is based on Firefox. The option you clicked is a Firefox feature that removes all of your add-ons and customizations, and resets everything to the default settings.
Since you ...
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Unable to start Tor browser using an account other than the one it was installed with (Windows 7)
Strictly speaking, the only folder you need to open up access to is
%installfolder%\Browser\TorBrowser\Data
That's where the caches and profile information is kept. No need to open up security on ...
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In China, Meek-azure and Meek-amazon can not be used, the following is the log, how can we use Meek?
What do when meek is blocked https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-January/036410.html
But suppose a censor makes that call, and blocks
Google/Amazon/whatever. What then?
The first ...
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how can I use TOR in China
If you installed tor browser :
Click Tor button (a button nearby address bar with an onion icon)
Select tor network settings
when window opened check the "My internet service provider blocks ...
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Is there a way to connect to a git remote located on the onion hidden service?
While marked answer is 100% correct I use a bit different approach. For ssh connections using OpenSSH client I utilze ProxyCommand for *.onion sites in the following way:
Host *.onion
...
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Is the latest Tor-0.2.5.10 Expert Bundle broken?
Just a note, running tor.exe | more gives you console output of tor
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Tails Tor not starting
Tails uses UTC time. But the time of most devices is set up to the timezone of their sale, which can be considered as de-anonimization.
What I usually do is manual explicit setting the hardware clock ...
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Connection to Amazon on shutting browser
During the time when you asked the question the IP address 54.208.95.143 was a Tor relay. The Exonerator service can tell you about the state of the Tor network in the past.
This means it was ...
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Tor.real and problems restarting Tor
tor.real is the actual Tor process.
Normally, Tor Browser starts 'tor.real' on launch and kills it again when you quit the browser. When your Tor Browser crashed, it didn't kill tor.real. Now when ...
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Stuck at "Establishing an encrypted directory connection"
It seems that you may be a victim of TLS/HTTPS MitM-attack, try to use Meek and Obfs3/4 pluggable transports. If it won't work either - please post your Tor log here, so I'll be able to help you ...
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Tails display errors and persistence errors!
Did you install Tails from the first Tails USB media into the second USB media?
As of August 2018, Tails requires 2 USB media in order to end up with a secure installation.
With the first USB medium ...
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windows program "webroot" blocks access to tor download
There is a thread on the Webroot forums about this, and here's an official answer from December 2015:
Hello everyone,
I just got off the phone with one of our team members that handles this ...
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I can't use the Tor search, or go to darknet
"When I run DISCONNECT.ME to search, it's redirected to DuckDuckGo"
Disconnect.me is redirecting to DuckDuckGo while they work on restoring their Google search syndication, it was falling back to ...
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Loading tor browser gets stuck at establishing encrypted directory connection
You have a SSL/TLS active attacker on your connection, use Meek pluggable transport to mitigate this. You can also try obfs4
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How does the Tor Circuit Map works?
The relays do not know the full path through the network.
The client (your local instance of Tor) chooses the path. This means that the client (you) knows the full path, but any single relay in the ...
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How to re-enable photo uploading for Twitter
Twitter uses a <canvas> object to allow the user to trim/resize their avatar.
Tor Browser will by default block this because it can be misused to fingerprint users.
The easiest way to get the ...
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Shift+Enter does not work in Facebook postings
This seems to be a general issue with keyboard input handling not being handled correctly, there's already a bugreport about it (currently unresolved) in the Tor bug tracker.
I can also confirm it ...
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Difficulties right off the bat
What the heck is a relay & an Exit relay?
Read about it at: https://www.eff.org/torchallenge/what-is-tor.html
This is the simplest description of what is tor relay I could find.
How can I ...
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Tor browser and amazon.com
Amazon, Cloudflare and Google usually aren't a fan of Tor network. Google blocks connections from Tor (sometimes shows a captcha and let it go), Cloudflare keep asking to complete captcha and Amazon ...
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Can't connect to Tor
You have accidently pressed the Enter when you was editing it - right here :
#HashedControlPassword
16:872860B76453A77D60CA2BB8C1A7042072093276A3D701AD684053EC4C
#CookieAuthentication 1
so it ...
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Secure Connection Failed for every web page?
Maybe Patch g for Kaspersky is the problem
https://support.kaspersky.com/13617#block0
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Why my Tor relay server only use 10-15% of my bandwidth?
Thanks for running a relay. (:
Clients choose which relays to use based on their consensus weight. The consensus weight is assigned by the directory authorities after measuring the throughput for ...
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Whatsapp Web QR Code flashes and vanishes
Enter about:config into the address bar. You'll see a warning. Please be careful when making changes. Enter privacy.resistFingerprinting.autoDeclineNoUserInputCanvasPrompts into the search bar and ...
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