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On 02/08/2016 11:38 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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> On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 14:13:33 -0800 Willie Matthews wrote: |
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>> On 02/06/2016 10:08 AM, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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>>> Hi, |
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>>> |
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>>> I got a interesting problem: |
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>>> |
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>>> When using Firefox 44, I can watch Videos for |
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>>> example from YouTube and can hear the audio. |
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>>> |
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>>> When using the newest TOR-Browser bundle, videos |
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>>> are playing fine...but without any sound. |
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>>> |
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>>> I have no clue, what happens here. |
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>>> |
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>>> Any help to fix that is very appreciated... |
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>>> thank you very much in advance! |
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>>> |
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>>> Best regards, |
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>>> Meino |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>> |
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>> It is a lot easier to use the tor network by installing net-misc/tor and |
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>> setting up the proxy on whatever browser you use. |
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>> |
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>> For instance I use Chrome. I setup a shortcut on my desktop that gives |
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>> me a a new incognito window that is using the proxy for all connections |
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>> and the /tmp/chrome directory for the user directory. |
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>> |
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>> [Desktop Entry] |
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>> Version=1.0 |
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>> Type=Application |
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>> Name=Chrome with Tor |
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>> Comment=Start Chrome with Tor |
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>> Exec=google-chrome-beta --incognito |
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>> --proxy-server="socks5://127.0.0.1:9050" --user-data-dir="/tmp/chrome/" |
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>> Icon=google-chrome-unstable |
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>> Path= |
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>> Terminal=false |
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>> StartupNotify=false |
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>> |
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>> I haven't had any problems using it this way so far. I hope that you |
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>> will have the same results. |
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> |
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> Be aware of privacy issues with such setup. Your browser may leak |
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> DNS requests, e.g. use standard system calls and they will be sent |
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> over casual network (not TOR), thus your provider will know what |
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> resources your are visiting as well as owner of DNS service you use. |
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> Chrome may leak other data in background as well. |
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> |
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> While such background traffic can be redirected to tor using tsocks |
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> and iptables, this is not very trivial task. That is why tor browser |
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> is useful: it does such stuff for you by ensuring that all browser |
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> traffic is going via tor. You may use torbrowser overlay to use |
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> this package in Gentoo. |
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> |
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> Best regards, |
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> Andrew Savchenko |
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> |
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Thanks for the heads up. I will have to look into if it is leaking |
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information. |
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Willie Matthews |
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matthews.willie80@×××××.com |
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(702) 659-9966 |
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