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How do you start the freeware Brave browser in Tor mode from a Windows desktop/taskbar shortcut?
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Arlen Holder
2020-11-14 21:46:17 UTC
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How do you start the freeware Brave browser in Tor mode
(from a Windows desktop/taskbar shortcut)?

Starting Brave via a desktop/taskbar shortcut is easy:
o mklink %userprofile%\desktop\brave.exe "C:\app\browser\brave\brave.exe"

Which creates a link whose target is the Brave browser in normal mode:
o Target=C:\app\browser\brave\brave.exe

And starting Brave in private mode is almost just as easy:
o Target=C:\app\browser\brave\brave.exe --incognito

But how do you start Brave in Tor mode via a desktop/taskbar shortcut?
o Even better, how do you start Brave in "ingognito plus Tor" mode?

This simply opens Brave in private mode (not Tor mode):
o Target=C:\app\browser\brave\brave.exe --incognito --tor

There _must_ be a way to make that link; but I don't know how yet.
o Do you? (perhaps via a batch file?)
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See also the related tutorial for installing progs where they belong
(you define where they belong, not a thousand different developers):

o Tutorial: How to install the free Brave privacy-based tor-enabled web browser where YOU want it to install (and how to save a full offline installer in the process)
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.comp.freeware/bog50yqc_As>
JJ
2020-11-15 07:44:06 UTC
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Post by Arlen Holder
How do you start the freeware Brave browser in Tor mode
(from a Windows desktop/taskbar shortcut)?
o mklink %userprofile%\desktop\brave.exe "C:\app\browser\brave\brave.exe"
o Target=C:\app\browser\brave\brave.exe
o Target=C:\app\browser\brave\brave.exe --incognito
But how do you start Brave in Tor mode via a desktop/taskbar shortcut?
o Even better, how do you start Brave in "ingognito plus Tor" mode?
o Target=C:\app\browser\brave\brave.exe --incognito --tor
There _must_ be a way to make that link; but I don't know how yet.
o Do you? (perhaps via a batch file?)
Brave don't use Tor.
Arlen Holder
2020-11-15 12:57:32 UTC
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Post by Arlen Holder
There _must_ be a way to make that link; but I don't know how yet.
o Do you? (perhaps via a batch file?)
Brave don't use Tor.
I've learned on Usenet that "sometimes" people say a lot with few words
o But if I assume you're saying exactly what you said... then that's wrong.

Brave does use Tor...
o What is a Brave Private Window with Tor?
<https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018121491-What-is-a-Private-Window-with-Tor->

The question I'm asking here is perhaps deeper than it at first may appear.
a. You can easily switch brave to using Tor via the GUI
b. But the question here is how to open _directly_ to Brave using Tor

I suspect it can't be done without some sort of batch file accompanying it.
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Usenet is good for finding that one person in the world who has done it.
JJ
2020-11-16 14:08:03 UTC
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Post by Arlen Holder
Post by JJ
Post by Arlen Holder
There _must_ be a way to make that link; but I don't know how yet.
o Do you? (perhaps via a batch file?)
Brave don't use Tor.
I've learned on Usenet that "sometimes" people say a lot with few words
o But if I assume you're saying exactly what you said... then that's wrong.
Brave does use Tor...
o What is a Brave Private Window with Tor?
<https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018121491-What-is-a-Private-Window-with-Tor->
The question I'm asking here is perhaps deeper than it at first may appear.
a. You can easily switch brave to using Tor via the GUI
b. But the question here is how to open _directly_ to Brave using Tor
I suspect it can't be done without some sort of batch file accompanying it.
In that case, then any web browser use Tor. As long as they're configured to
use it.
Arlen Holder
2020-11-16 16:04:19 UTC
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Post by Arlen Holder
I suspect it can't be done without some sort of batch file accompanying it.
In that case, then any web browser use Tor.
As long as they're configured to use it.
Hi JJ,

I don't know how long you've been at this, but I've been using Tor
seemingly for decades, so I'm fully aware of the sheer hell we used to go
through to "torify" our connections in the past (socks, tor, polipo, etc.).

Sure, you can torify anything, if you want to.
o I don't.

Like most people, I simply want to press a button & have Tor in the
browser, which Brave does in _two_ steps.

I just want to ask if there are any experts out there who can do it in one.
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Usenet is good for finding that one person in the world who has done it.
JJ
2020-11-18 11:50:12 UTC
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Post by Arlen Holder
Sure, you can torify anything, if you want to.
o I don't.
Like most people, I simply want to press a button & have Tor in the
browser, which Brave does in _two_ steps.
Well, Brave is just a torified web browser. Just like TBB, but as an opt-in
feature rather than opt-out.
Post by Arlen Holder
I just want to ask if there are any experts out there who can do it in one.
In this DOS-based batch newsgroup?
Ken Blake
2020-11-16 14:47:37 UTC
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Post by JJ
Post by Arlen Holder
How do you start the freeware Brave browser in Tor mode
(from a Windows desktop/taskbar shortcut)?
o mklink %userprofile%\desktop\brave.exe "C:\app\browser\brave\brave.exe"
o Target=C:\app\browser\brave\brave.exe
o Target=C:\app\browser\brave\brave.exe --incognito
But how do you start Brave in Tor mode via a desktop/taskbar shortcut?
o Even better, how do you start Brave in "ingognito plus Tor" mode?
o Target=C:\app\browser\brave\brave.exe --incognito --tor
There _must_ be a way to make that link; but I don't know how yet.
o Do you? (perhaps via a batch file?)
Brave don't use Tor.
Even though I don't think I'm particularly brave, I also don't use Tor.
--
Ken
Arlen Holder
2020-11-23 18:08:41 UTC
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