Re: how can I use "tor"

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

Two issues:

First, the tor project is asking distros not to build the tor browser themselves. That includes Guix. That is because a build with Guix will make it distinguishable from the tor-browser built by the tor project.

Second, the tor-browser built by the tor project assumes FHS (/bir, /lib, etc) which guix doesn.t provide, so you can't run it directly.

Of course it's not great for anonymity since icecat is way more distinguishable than the tor-browser built by guix would be.

You could use different profiles in icecat, one with tor settings, one without. You can run icecat -P to select profiles.

Le 24 juillet 2022 12:20:25 GMT+02:00, Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> a écrit :
>Thanks for clearing up.
>
>Would it be not a good idea to set up Tor Browser in Guix, that we would be able to use Tor only for certain webbrowsing and Icecat for the normal usage?
>
>I don't know if somebody has time to do it.
>Gottfried
>
>
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>Am 24.07.22 um 12:13 schrieb Julien Lepiller:
>> No, there's no tor-browser on guix. Tor is running as a separate daemon and changing the settings instruct icecat to connect through the tor daemon.
>> 
>> Le 24 juillet 2022 12:04:47 GMT+02:00, Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>> thanks a lot. It worked.
>>>> You can't "run tor in icecat" that doesn't make sense. Maybe you meant something else?
>>> 
>>> Exactly, that what I meant. I can't run Tor in Icecat. It doesn't make sense.
>>> 
>>> But in changing the settings in Icecat to using Tor, I understand, that it is like this. Tor is used in Icecat and there is not a separate Tor Browser. Am I right?
>>> 
>>> Gottfried
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Am 22.07.22 um 17:20 schrieb Julien Lepiller:
>>>> You can't "run tor in icecat" that doesn't make sense. Maybe you meant something else?
>>>> 
>>>> If you don't want icecat to use tor, keep your current settings.
>>>> 
>>>> For using tor in icecat, in your network settings:
>>>> 
>>>> Select "Manuelle Proxy-Konfiguration"
>>>> SOCKS host is localhost, SOCKS port is 9050
>>>> Select SOCKS v5
>>>> Select "Bei Verwendung von SOCKS v5 den Proxy für DNS-Anfragen verwenden"
>>>> 
>>>> Then check with the tor project URL I sent you that you are connecting through tor.
>>> 
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