Re: [tor-talk] Invitation to try experimental Snowflake Tor Browser packages

2020-03-03 Thread David Fifield
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:02:10PM -0700, David Fifield wrote: > These special packages are made not to auto-update until 2020-04-23. > After that, they will update and become a normal Tor Browser alpha. The prefs I tried setting to disable automatic updates didn't work. If you were using one of t

Re: [tor-talk] Invitation to try experimental Snowflake Tor Browser packages

2020-03-03 Thread David Fifield
On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 09:24:19AM +0100, john doe wrote: > On 2/28/2020 3:32 AM, David Fifield wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 08:06:35PM +0100, john doe wrote: > >> I get stuck at 50% while trying to connect. > >> Is there specific ports that are required to be opened? > > > > 50% is the point

Re: [tor-talk] .onion alt-svc issues?

2020-03-03 Thread George Kadianakis
Matthew Finkel writes: > Hello everyone, > > I'm curious if anyone has recently experienced issues with websites > offering .onion alternative services. We have a slightly old Tor Browser > ticket for "prioritizing" .onion alt-svc entries over non-.onions, but > in my testing I could not reproduc

Re: [tor-talk] Call for alpha testing onionbalance for v3 onions

2020-03-03 Thread George Kadianakis
George Kadianakis writes: > Hello list, > > I'm glad to announce that onionbalance for v3 onions is now ready for > preliminary testing. > > Please see > https://github.com/asn-d6/onionbalance/blob/master/docs/alpha-testing-v3.txt > for more details, and don't hesitate to ask questions. > > I'm

Re: [tor-talk] Invitation to try experimental Snowflake Tor Browser packages

2020-03-03 Thread john doe
On 3/3/2020 10:15 AM, David Fifield wrote: > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 09:24:19AM +0100, john doe wrote: >> On 2/28/2020 3:32 AM, David Fifield wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 08:06:35PM +0100, john doe wrote: I get stuck at 50% while trying to connect. Is there specific ports that are r

[tor-talk] Revisiting youtube blocking TBB, virtually all 1st attempts to load YT

2020-03-03 Thread joebtfsplk
Problems with TBB & YouTube were recently discussed on tor-talk.  Things have changed fairly quickly. Something new has developed for me.  1st, I don't visit YT daily or even weekly, depending. Until maybe 10 days ago, the site (often, not always) presented a message about excessive traffic from