New Stable Tor Browser Bundles
The stable Tor Browser Bundles have all been updated to the latest Tor 0.2.2.38 stable release.
https://www.torproject.org/download
Tor Browser Bundle (2.2.38-1)
- Update Tor to 0.2.2.38
- Update NoScript to 2.5
- Update HTTPS Everywhere to 2.1
hi is it possible to use tor
hi
is it possible to use tor only for bypassing blocked websites?
i don't want to be anonymous i just want to open blocked content but with tor i can't watch videos properly
(i asked here since there wasn't a forum :< )
You can watch videos while
You can watch videos while using Tor to bypass country/institution filters, however you will have to disable some options and possibly reconfigure a setting in your operating system.
This is the optional part, but I'd strongly recommend changing your DNS from an automatic setting to manual. You can use 8.8.8.8 as a primary DNS server and 4.2.2.2 as a secondary DNS server. They're both fast, independent from each other, and not connected to your school/business/country. Though as a heads up, 8.8.8.8 belongs to Google (so does 8.8.4.4), and 4.2.2.2 (actually, the range from 4.2.2.1 to 4.2.2.6) belong to Level3/Verizon.
Changing DNS providers will ensure that your computer gets directed to the correct IP addresses when you lookup a website domain name. Now comes the part you will definitely have to do in order for you to watch videos through Tor (and by the way, you should use the Vidalia bundle, not the browser bundle (AKA TorBrowser) since TorBrowser doesn't come with Flash Player, Shockwave Player, or Java (plugins go against the safety ideals which are tightly held by the Tor developers and Tor community). Anyway, while you have Vidalia, Tor, and Firefox with Torbutton running, make sure you can connect to some remote website. After you know you have a working connection, go into the Torbutton settings by clicking the onion icon somewhere in the top of the browser. If a small warning popup comes up, click okay and try again until you are able to get into the settings panel...
Once Torbutton Preferences is opened, go to the Security Settings tab and uncheck/deselect the first 3 options that have to do with plugins, dynamic content, and javascript. This is NOT something you should do if you care about your privacy behind Tor, however you are only interested in bypassing filters so you aren't interested in the restricting--but very safe--options. Once you do that, make sure the settings are saved. Exit and reopen Firefox and check that Flash Player, Shockwave Player, and Java are installed and enabled. IF YOU HAVE NOSCRIPT INSTALLED you will need to disable it on the sites you want to watch videos on (or whitelist the sites and plugin sites within said sites).
Tor will still do a relatively good job of anonymizing you and it will bypass any filters set in place. Although if your Tor session uses an exit node that has a very restrictive country (like Iran or China), you'll be affected by that country's web filtering policies.
Good luck. Hope that helps!
LL
Tor exit node in Iran or
Tor exit node in Iran or China?! - didn't realise there was such a thing :-)
how just do i install the
how just do i install the plugins- they just wouldn't stay put. or wouldn't work
Windows 7 (64), recently
Windows 7 (64), recently updated. After the update, tbb 2.2.36-1_en-US couldn't find tor.exe, so up updated to 2.2.38-1_en_US. After editing the path to tor.exe, I managed to get a good connection. However, Vidalia promptly errors with "unable to start configured web browser". This issue seems to have been addressed in previous versions, but mostly with XP SP3.