[ale] Ubuntu + Chrome/Tor

[wes smith]

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> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:44:26 -0700
> From: "Robert L. Harris" <robert.l.harris at gmail.com>
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: [ale] Ubuntu + Chrome/Tor
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>   Has anyone had any luck getting Chrome on Ubuntu to play nice with Tor?
>
>   I've got Tor up and running, according to the logs, just fine.  When I
> try to use various extensions though to enable the Tor browsing the site
> https://chech.torproject.org says I'm not using the network.  Anyone have
> any ideas?
>
>   I even tried to launch chrome from cmdline with:
>
> google-chrome --incognito --proxy-server="localhost:8118"
>
>
> ii  google-chrome-stable       24.0.1312.52-r1753 amd64              The
> web browser from Google
> ii  tor                        0.2.3.22-rc-1      amd64
>  anonymizing overlay network for TCP
>
>
> Robert
>

Looks like you haven't configured privoxy, add
forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
to /etc/privoxy/config don't forget the period.

Also the tor browser bundle is the preferred method to help minimize data
leakage. Firefox ESR, torbutton, noscript, vidalia etc etc.
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
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