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Lately curiosity is getting the better of me. I would like to browse below the surface web, yet I lack the knowledge on how to ensure my safety. Are there things that are absolutne necessities? Anything to avoid?

Wouldn't that democratise tor nodes? And if the users don't like the idea of their computer running an exit node an option to disable only exit nodes can be implemented.

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Im running a middle node on my proxmox instance and got a fixed IP from my ISP.
Since yesterday i get some "whoa hold on there pardner" message from reddit.
When i google my public IP, I only get results about it showing up with a Tor service.
These listing services also list me as a node that has exitpolicy "reject" which double
confirms me that i set my tor instance up as a proper middle node.

My other services are either behind a cloudflare rev proxy or on a very high port.
Ive raised a case yesterday but don't put a lot of hope into getting that solved.

Has anyone had this issue before, too ?

So I found this kind of funny. Am I using the beta version of Tor or the beta version of the alpha version of Tor?

I am trying to access https://www.skroutz.gr/ . The site doesn't load the images that are hosted apparently at https://d.scdn.gr, but when i copy-paste the image link, it shows fine. I have installed ublock , i still don't care about cookies, cookies auto delete extensions on my Tor, but I have disabled both ublock and Noscript on this site. What could be the issue?

Pardon my ignorance as it's my first time browsing TOR, I heard that the hiddenwiki has some resources on TOR and I clicked the standard hidden.wiki link in the TOR browser and I can't seem to get a clear answer on whether it's safe accessing sites like that or should I mainly stick to browsing only .onion sites while on the TOR browser

I'm running a VM android 9.0 inside a phone running android 14. I can't get Mullvad, Tor, or even Orbot to work when most standard apps work fine inside the VM. Any suggestions to get Tor working, it just freezes when I start the app. Thanks.

so long story short. im able to install and run the old repo version of tor but I can't for the life of me figure out how to set up the offical tor repository. I created the tor.list file placed it where its supposed to go put this in there. im getting the unable to locate package deb.torproject.org-keyring error. any help would be appreciated. running on a raspberry pi 3b with the raspberry pi lite 64 bit software.

deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/deb.torproject.org-keyring.gpg] https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org bookworm main
   
deb-src [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/deb.torproject.org-keyring.gpg] https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org bookworm main

Hi I noticed lately Tor is using circuits through Russia, How can I prevent that beside create new circuit each time. I noticed has become very often lately. I did used to do that ? I hope anyone could knows or how to prevent it happens

I know that the IP can be tracked through the nodes. But could an website just read the ip if you just visited it?

It doesn't matter how many time I change my route and get a different exit node, I get blocked on TOR.

I don't mean signing in, just loading the site at all.

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I want to route all my everyday traffic through tor to prevent man in the middle,arp spoofing etc(public wifi). Now i do understand that i am relaying the trust to the exit node but i havent heard attacks like this happen. Would you recommend using tor for this? Is there any protection from the tor network that disallows such behaviour? Mostly do you consider this secure?

My actual machine is a M2 MacBook air with a macOS virtual machine running on UTM since it’s the only thing I could get working for some reason Absolutely zero personal information within the VM Socks proxy VPN with Killswitch so if it fails, it shuts my Internet off Tor with safest security setting and also whatever that web thing is is disabled. I forget what it’s called. I randomize the Mac address every time I open or close it Extra stuff: I know human error can be at risk so obviously, I never download anything or give personal information out to people on the dark web or really interact with anybody

Hi folks,

I just started Tor and instead of my homepage I got an infobar saying my homepage was blocked because it might recognize my previous session.

My question is how would it do that?

Security level is set to 'Safest'.

thanks in advance

have a good one

And why does that particular percentage speed limit exist? I know the connection is slowed down partly because it has to be bounced around a bunch beforehand, but obviously the dev's of Tor know how to get even faster speeds on a per capita basis even though they still follow this process

Is this normal?

Hi all, just tried to login to my onionmal.org account, but I always get: invalid csrf token

I'm using the latest Tor-Browser: 13.5.7

Also tried the "onion-service" link and refreshed the route several times. Setting up a new account isn't working along with creationg a ticket.

Tor Browser don't save cookies or caches any website data after restart, so cleaning up has no effect

I want to use a bridge in Tor over Whonix. If I do it via the tor connection wizard and use either my own or built-in bridges, it doesn't work and if I do it via the torrc file, it doesn't work either. Do I have to adjust anything else? In the nyx menu under Bridge relay, I always get „false“ displayed.

Hello, first of all, my question may be absurd and noob because I am quite new to this subject. Please excuse me for this. I want to set up a website on clearnet. I will buy a domain and hosting for this. As you know, Whonix passes your virtual machine through the Tor network. You can connect to a hosting provider site through the Whonix virtual machine. Will my website work if I buy domain and hosting with coins? (It probably won't, lol). If it works, how is it safe?

You would think I would be able to just Google this question, but I mostly get results for VPN instead of VM which are completely different things, and general non-committal answers so I am trying to ask here.

If I had a Windows host system, setup a Windows guest system in Virtual Box, and then installed Tor on said guest system inside the VM, would TOR function correctly within that VM? Or would somehow the anonymity be compromised going from the virtual guest OS to the host os and through it's internet connection?

Basically would TOR in a VM still be as anonymous as if I was running TOR natively on the host OS without a VM?

This question may sound stupid, as if it's coming from someone who did not read the manual, but I really do not see this covered in any manuals or tutorials.

So, I got the Tor .tar.xz file from official Telegram bot (Tor website is banned in my country). I uncompressed it's contents and entered it. In `tor-browser` catalogue I see a catalogue named "Browser" and a "start-tor-browser.desktop" file. Following the official tutorial, I turned on "Executable as program" in file properties and clicked "Run as program" several times. It created a strange "sedeL1tQ3" file with unknown extension one time, but nothing else. I can launch it with navigating to this location through the terminal and running it with a command `./start-tor-browser.desktop`, but no shortcut in the apps menu is being created. I have to do it every time to launch the browser.

What am I doing wrong?

i have heard apple uses webkit or something, not sure how it really works. im new to most of this so anything helps

Hi, since the latest update, my Tor browser has been rendered useless unless I know the EXACT URL I'm looking for. My DuckDuckGo searches have become just the searchbar with my search and a completely blank page underneath, and I can not navigate between pages. Has anyone else had that issue ? And if so, how'd you fix it ?

Basically every single link found in ever search engines I could find nothing worked. Always said couldn't find address. Or couldn't find server. Used a VPN a different browser and even tried using trusted links. Nothing worked not even a bridge

I am using tor 13.5.6 on Debian 12 and I found that when I entered a chat server the time shown was from the local circuit (hours in front of mine local time). Is it possible to change the time so my local time is shown.