Re: [tor-talk] Idea for a stand-alone browser based on Tor browser source code

2020-07-08 Thread Jason Evans
On 7/7/20 9:12 PM, joel04g_t5...@secmail.pro wrote: > Tor browser has good defense against many tracking techniques, however, > internet users may want a way to browse the web without anonymity but with > some of the great features Tor browser provides. (Security Level, > Noscript, Isolate track

[tor-talk] Private Exits

2020-06-28 Thread Jason Evans
Exit Node and without the worries about treated like one. Suggestions appreciated. I am not a developer and even the simple bash scripts that I write are so bad that they are a crime against humanity. I'm just hoping to maybe throw out some ideas for someone else to implement. Best Regards, Jason E

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser without Tor

2020-02-05 Thread Jason Evans
On 2/3/20 11:38 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote You should really avoid making exceptions to the proxy rules for Tor Browser. If you let your browser connect to local services, that opens the door for remote websites, which you access over Tor, to give you instructions (e.g. via javascript, but not on

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser without Tor

2020-02-03 Thread Jason Evans
On 2/3/20 8:29 AM, Mirimir wrote: Cheers, Open about:config, and search "extensions.torlauncher". Set "extensions.torlauncher.prompt_at_startup" to false. Set "extensions.torlauncher.start_tor" to false. Now Tor browser won't start Tor. Thanks for the reply! Any idea about the second questi

[tor-talk] Tor Browser without Tor

2020-02-02 Thread Jason Evans
Hi all, This is a question that we get from time to time in the Stack Exchange group. Can I use Tor Browser without without actually using theĀ  Tor network? For example, I want to use the browser for checking my back account but I can't because my bank doesn't allow traffic from exit nodes.

Re: [tor-talk] Use Tor in a right track.

2020-01-28 Thread Jason Evans
On Monday, January 27, 2020 1:07:26 PM CET Jason Long wrote: > Hello, > I want to secure the internet connection of an application like Telegram. If > I set the Telegram proxy to use Socks5(127.0.0.1:9150) then is it enough? > > Thank you. First of all, make sure it is Socks 5 + DNS because you wa

Re: [tor-talk] TBird & torbirdy

2019-11-19 Thread Jason Evans
> > It is alas worse than that: somebody needs to look at the new 68esr > and > evaluate it for privacy flaws, and nobody has had time + expertise to > do it. Hi Roger, Is there a standardized way to evaluate a piece of software for privacy flaws or does this require an actual audit of the sour

Re: [tor-talk] YouTube Censored Tor

2019-11-07 Thread Jason Evans
On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 00:48 -0500, grarpamp wrote: > WARNING: unable to download video info webpage: HTTP Error 429: Too > Many Requests > "Sorry for the interruption. We have been receiving a large volume of > requests from your network. I'm seeing the same thing using "torsocks youtube-dl". It s