Thanks, guys. This actually wasn’t hard to understand - I just hope someone adds the updated screenshots to the site; I would if I had the time these days.
Cheers! -Kevin On Jan 27, 2014, at 1:24 AM, Matthew Finkel <matthew.fin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 01:09:39AM -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 04:43:02PM -0600, Kevin Nestor wrote: >>> all of your posts and videos about setting up for to use a bridge rely >>> on an older version of bridge that uses vidalia separately. >>> >>> Now that everyone can only download the Tor browser bundle that opens >>> as a single browser (mine being a mac), you can not get anything in the >>> settings menu that gives you the option to ?find bridges.? What can >>> you do to find a local bridge? >> >> The "find bridges" button was broken on Vidalia anyway, ever since >> https://bridges.torproject.org/ added a captcha to make it harder for >> bad guys to automate pretending to be lots of people and learn lots of >> bridges addresses. >> >> Now the right answer is to go to https://bridges.torproject.org/ and >> learn some bridges. Then you can either choose 'configure' rather than >> 'connect' when you start TBB the first time, in which case it will walk >> you through adding the bridges you found, or if you've already started >> TBB, go to 'open network settings' in your Torbutton (the green onion near >> the URL bar) and select 'my ISP blocks connections to the Tor network'. >> > > To add to this, be aware that if you go to > https://bridges.torproject.org/ then you will likely receive two types > of bridges. There are "vanilla" bridges and there are bridges which that > Tor Project call Pluggable Transports. If you copy the bridges from the > website into the Tor Browser Bundle, as Roger described, you may only be > able to use some of them, which is fine, you only need one bridge to > work. If you would like all of the bridges on the website to work then > you will want to download the Pluggable Transport-capable Tor Browser > Bundle. It's a little larger in size but it provides additional > functionality that is important if you are somewhere that censors Tor > connections. > > The pluggable transport bundle is available from [0]. If you are using a > Mac then you will want to choose one from the first 13 links, the links > that contain osx32 in the file name, and you'll want to choose the link > that provides your preferred language, if it's available (de = German, > en-US = US English, es-ES = Spanish (Spain), fa = Farsi, etc). > > There is also a FAQ page which will hopefully answer some of your > questions. One of the sections[1], "How do I use pluggable transports?" > provides instructions and some bridges to help you get started. If > possible, follow Roger's instructions above to add the 'obfsproxy' > bridge lines in that section, if that doesn't work then try to follow > the instructions on that webpage. > > The announcement that was made for this pluggable transport-capable TBB > can be found on [2]. It provides some more links and additional > information (including the two links I mentioned above). > > Sorry if these instructions are difficult to follow or understand. > Whether or not you need to use the pluggable transport-capable bundle > really depends on where you are. If you don't know if you need to use > pluggable transports then try following Roger's directions first. If you > are still unable to connect to the Tor network then try to follow the > instruction for the pluggable transport-capable bundle. > > [0] https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/pt-bundle/3.5-pt20131217/ > [1] https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#PluggableTransports > [2] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-bundle-35-released > >> If somebody reading this wants to make some updated screenshots for >> https://www.torproject.org/docs/bridges#UsingBridges >> that would be swell. >> > > That really would be swell. The easier we can make this, with > step-by-step visual instructions, the bettwe. > > I hope this helps, > - Matt > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
