Okay, so I tried to run youtube via browser (firefox, opera, chrome) using snowflake and setting up tor bridge (I think I got it) but youtube still work only in tor browser.
What do I do?
Snowflake, obfs4 bridges are means to circumvent Tor censorship, i.e. when connections to Tor itself is blocked.
They never interact with the destination website (youtube.com , in this case) and cannot help here.
Using bridges and other censorship circumvention methods, the connection flow is something like:
User → Bridge relay → Middle Relay → Exit Relay → Website (e.g. youtube.com)
If you can reach Youtube with Tor Browser and the other browsers are not working, maybe there are some local firewall rules blocking access? I believe, this will be your (or your Network Administrator’s) first step in investigating what’s going wrong.
C:\Users\yobs_91548\AppData\Roaming\tor>tor.exe -f torrc
Nov 07 21:32:35.758 [notice] Tor 0.4.8.13 (git-e153e72c01315f86) running on Windows 8 [or later] with Libevent 2.1.12-stable, OpenSSL 3.0.15, Zlib 1.3.1, Liblzma N/A, Libzstd N/A and Unknown N/A as libc.
Nov 07 21:32:35.759 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://support.torproject.org/faq/staying-anonymous/
Nov 07 21:32:35.802 [notice] Read configuration file "C:\Users\yobs_91548\AppData\Roaming\tor\torrc".
Nov 07 21:32:35.805 [notice] Based on detected system memory, MaxMemInQueues is set to 8192 MB. You can override this by setting MaxMemInQueues by hand.
Nov 07 21:32:35.809 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Nov 07 21:32:35.810 [notice] Opened Socks listener connection (ready) on 127.0.0.1:9050
Nov 07 21:32:35.810 [notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:8088
Nov 07 21:32:35.810 [notice] Opened OR listener connection (ready) on 0.0.0.0:8088
Nov 07 21:32:35.810 [notice] Opening OR listener on [::]:8088
Nov 07 21:32:35.811 [notice] Opened OR listener connection (ready) on [::]:8088
Nov 07 21:32:35.811 [notice] Opening Extended OR listener on 127.0.0.1:0
Nov 07 21:32:35.811 [notice] Extended OR listener listening on port 62716.
Nov 07 21:32:35.811 [notice] Opened Extended OR listener connection (ready) on 127.0.0.1:62716
I get the log above when trying to run the bridge, does it launching properly? I use ORPort 8088
Are you saying you’re running a bridge on your PC? This is not how bridges work.
Also installing the Snowflake extension won’t help you circumvent censorship.
What is your end goal? You want to be able to open YouTube on other browsers?
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Umm yeah. Like using tor browser, but only on certain websites
Firsly, remember that using Tor with browsers other than Tor Browser is a privacy risk. If all you want is to circumvent censorship, then proceed.
- Configure Tor such that it can connect. You’ll need to use the
Bridgesconfig option. - Launch Tor.
- Open the settings of the other browser.
- Go to “proxy” settings
- Set
127.0.0.1:9050as a SOCKS5 proxy in that browser. - To manage which sites should be routed through the proxy and which should not, you can utilize an extension such as SmartProxy.
Instead of steps 1 and 2 you can simply launch the Tor Browser, connect with it, then proceed from step 3 with another browser. In step 5, replace 9050 with 9150.
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Thanks for the advice! Nah, don’t care about privacy that much, just want to bypass censorship.
Okay, so I tried both with the bridge and the tor browser instance running and I get a “The proxy server refuses to accept connections” error
Are there any other parameters I should change? Can I just copy-paste “proxy settings” from the tor browser? It is based on friefox too, right?
So my steps were going in firefox’es options, selecting custom proxy settings and using SOCKS4. Do I need to use 5? What about HTTP and HTTPS settings above, do I just leave them blank? What could be the issue
Next, I set up a proxy rule for certain sites.
Everything works, I’m happy! And no dancing with tambourines in tor-deamon.
I have done as WofWca wrote. It works.
I configured a connection to TorBrowser using socket5 and port 9150
Don`t forget to save the configuration.
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No, proxy settings are blank in Tor Browser by default.
Yes.
Yes.
I try to run it via bridge with that settings and nothing work… bridge seem to be online:
не работает ничо
It’s not a bridge. It’s a Tor client. You need to check Tor client logs and make sure that it connected successfully. You will need to connect through a bridge using the Bridge config option.
Umm could you please be more specific?
I ran tor as a background process (client with a bridge?) following that tutorial:
My log for it were in the post above:
“C:\Users\yobs_91548\AppData\Roaming\tor>tor.exe -f torrc
Nov 07 21:32:35.758 [notice] Tor 0.4.8.13 (git-e153e72c01315f86) running on Windows 8 [or later] with Libevent 2.1.12-stable, OpenSSL 3.0.15, Zlib 1.3.1, Liblzma N/A, Libzstd N/A and Unknown N/A as libc.
Nov 07 21:32:35.759 [notice] Tor can’t help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at Am I totally anonymous if I use Tor? | Tor Project | Support
Nov 07 21:32:35.802 [notice] Read configuration file “C:\Users\yobs_91548\AppData\Roaming\tor\torrc”.
Nov 07 21:32:35.805 [notice] Based on detected system memory, MaxMemInQueues is set to 8192 MB. You can override this by setting MaxMemInQueues by hand.
Nov 07 21:32:35.809 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Nov 07 21:32:35.810 [notice] Opened Socks listener connection (ready) on 127.0.0.1:9050
Nov 07 21:32:35.810 [notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:8088
Nov 07 21:32:35.810 [notice] Opened OR listener connection (ready) on 0.0.0.0:8088
Nov 07 21:32:35.810 [notice] Opening OR listener on [::]:8088
Nov 07 21:32:35.811 [notice] Opened OR listener connection (ready) on [::]:8088
Nov 07 21:32:35.811 [notice] Opening Extended OR listener on 127.0.0.1:0
Nov 07 21:32:35.811 [notice] Extended OR listener listening on port 62716.
Nov 07 21:32:35.811 [notice] Opened Extended OR listener connection (ready) on 127.0.0.1:62716”
This is the wrong tutorial. Running a bridge on your own machine won’t work, because the bridge is still in the censored area (inside Russia). Bridges must be hosted outside the censored area so that they can connect to the Tor network directly.
What you want instead is to configure Tor as a client and not a bridge, so that it can connect to a bridge on another machine. This is what you’ve done with Tor Browser.
Since you say that Tor Browser is able to connect, you can try to use Tor Browser’s config file (torrc) for the CLI version of Tor. Run
tor.exe -f C:\Program Files\Tor Browser\Browser\TorBrowser\Data\Tor\torrc
Or wherever your Tor Browser is installed.
And remember about the “9150” method I mentioned above.
When entering those proxy settings in a Firefox based browser you wont have the stream isolation that Tor Browser has from what I understand is that correct?
By this you mean the thing where Tor uses different circuits for different destinations (websites)? I believe it will work.
Hello @MillenniumFalcon && @yobs_91548 ,
Be clear, I use daily (and I recommend to my clients) regular TBB or super Mullvad browser with my corp VPN (zero logs) etc by the model of situation.
I dont use regular Firefox or chromium etc with Tor proxy in real life, just for tech dev test-research, only, I dont trust that.
My personal note from a daily practice:
If you want to use YouTube-only /by the post title > Use the Freetube app, see my url above, with Tor or VPN (if trust the corp, the logs) config, the app has great private functions, playlists, subscriptions without google accounts etc etc + works perfect with your hardware /works perfect with low-end as well, just need 64bit, the only ‘minus’
note: New release 0.22.0 huge great performance Release Release v0.22.0 Beta · FreeTubeApp/FreeTube · GitHub
note2: I use for years the amd64.AppImage version ^^
Great day/night to all
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