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tails os how to connect to internet? (r.nf)

submitted 2 months ago by Common_Radish_4964@r.nf to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Once the onion network is established, I would like to run yt-dlp, however, I am hit by the error message saying no connection is established.. same goes to other software I use.

how can i dothat?

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[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Open the tor browser and try if that works. If it does you do have internet. Some applications dont like when they are used over tor.

[–] Common_Radish_4964@r.nf 1 points 2 months ago

tor browser works

[–] 0v0@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Either use the --proxy option of yt-dlp, or use torsocks to transparently torify any application.

[–] Common_Radish_4964@r.nf 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

thanks, for anything not running in the terminal, what other methods can one uses?

[–] 0v0@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Options:

Just start it from the terminal with torsocks
Use application-specific proxy settings
Since torsocks simply uses LD_PRELOAD, you could try to make this apply globally by adding the torsocks library to ld.so.preload. Just put the path returned by torsocks show in /etc/ld.so.preload.