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  How do you start the freeware Brave browser in Tor mode from a Windows desktop/taskbar shortcut?  Arlen   Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2020-11-14 21:46 +0000
    Re: How do you start the freeware Brave browser in Tor mode from a Windows desktop/taskbar shortcut? JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> - 2020-11-15 14:44 +0700
      Re: How do you start the freeware Brave browser in Tor mode from a Windows desktop/taskbar shortcut?  Arlen   Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2020-11-15 12:57 +0000
        Re: How do you start the freeware Brave browser in Tor mode from a Windows desktop/taskbar shortcut? JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> - 2020-11-16 21:08 +0700
          Re: How do you start the freeware Brave browser in Tor mode from a Windows desktop/taskbar shortcut?  Arlen   Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2020-11-16 16:04 +0000
            Re: How do you start the freeware Brave browser in Tor mode from a Windows desktop/taskbar shortcut? JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> - 2020-11-18 18:50 +0700
      Re: How do you start the freeware Brave browser in Tor mode from a Windows desktop/taskbar shortcut? Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2020-11-16 07:47 -0700
        Re: How do you start the freeware Brave browser in Tor mode from a Windows desktop/taskbar shortcut?  Arlen   Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2020-11-23 18:08 +0000

#709 — How do you start the freeware Brave browser in Tor mode from a Windows desktop/taskbar shortcut?

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?)
-- 
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>

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#710

On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 21:46:17 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote:
> 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?)

Brave don't use Tor.

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#712

On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 14:44:06 +0700, JJ wrote:

>> 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.
-- 
Usenet is good for finding that one person in the world who has done it.

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#722

On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 12:57:32 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 14:44:06 +0700, JJ wrote:
> 
>>> 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.

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#726

On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 21:08:03 +0700, JJ wrote:

>> 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.
-- 
Usenet is good for finding that one person in the world who has done it.

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#733

On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 16:04:19 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote:
> 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.

> I just want to ask if there are any experts out there who can do it in one.

In this DOS-based batch newsgroup?

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#724

On 11/15/2020 12:44 AM, JJ wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 21:46:17 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote:
>> 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?)
> 
> Brave don't use Tor.


Even though I don't think I'm particularly brave, I also don't use Tor.


-- 
Ken

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#741

On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 07:47:37 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

> Even though I don't think I'm particularly brave, I also don't use Tor.

Ken Blake,

Worthless pieces of shit trolls like Ken Blake are who ruin Usenet for all.

*You're a well-known infantile meaningless worthless piece of shit troll*.
o /Why must you always prove me completely correct about you, Ken Blake?/

*You've never in your entire life ever added _adult_ on topic value*.
o /Yet you continue to prove me correct _every_ time you post, Ken Blake./
-- 
Worthless pieces of shit trolls like Ken Blake are who ruin Usenet for all.

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