Re: [gentoo-user] TOR-Browser Bundle: And the rest was silence...

[Andrew Savchenko]

On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 14:13:33 -0800 Willie Matthews wrote:
> On 02/06/2016 10:08 AM, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I got a interesting problem:
> >
> > When using Firefox 44, I can watch Videos for
> > example from YouTube and can hear the audio.
> >
> > When using the newest TOR-Browser bundle, videos
> > are playing fine...but without any sound.
> >
> > I have no clue, what happens here.
> >
> > Any help to fix that is very appreciated...
> > thank you very much in advance!
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Meino
> >
> >
> >
>
> It is a lot easier to use the tor network by installing net-misc/tor and
> setting up the proxy on whatever browser you use.
>
> For instance I use Chrome. I setup a shortcut on my desktop that gives
> me a a new incognito window that is using the proxy for all connections
> and the /tmp/chrome directory for the user directory.
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Version=1.0
> Type=Application
> Name=Chrome with Tor
> Comment=Start Chrome with Tor
> Exec=google-chrome-beta --incognito
> --proxy-server="socks5://127.0.0.1:9050" --user-data-dir="/tmp/chrome/"
> Icon=google-chrome-unstable
> Path=
> Terminal=false
> StartupNotify=false
>
> I haven't had any problems using it this way so far. I hope that you
> will have the same results.

Be aware of privacy issues with such setup. Your browser may leak
DNS requests, e.g. use standard system calls and they will be sent
over casual network (not TOR), thus your provider will know what
resources your are visiting as well as owner of DNS service you use.
Chrome may leak other data in background as well.

While such background traffic can be redirected to tor using tsocks
and iptables, this is not very trivial task. That is why tor browser
is useful: it does such stuff for you by ensuring that all browser
traffic is going via tor. You may use torbrowser overlay to use
this package in Gentoo.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko