[tor-talk] Help with Tor and Flash Player plugin struggle

[Joe Btfsplk]

On 10/11/2012 3:07 PM, Kamtarin Sorood wrote:
> *
> Hello
> I don't know what is the reason for your insistence on using FireFox
> bundled into Tor browser package
> while privacy and maximum security is not the case.
> After lunching bundled FireFox and showing welcome screen you can minimize
> that
> and lunch your normal FireFox then set its Socks section of proxy settings
> to
> 127.0.0.1 port 9050 and see and play all restricted medias such as flash
> videos.
> This is my shortest and easiest method to resolve that problem
>
> *
>
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:30 AM, k e bera <keb at cyblings.on.ca> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 16:37:00 -0700
>> numetro <numetro at live.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've now tried everything and I cannot get ANY Flash content to play in
>>> this Tor-Firefox ESR web browser, even though I've tried installing the
>>> Flash player plugin that this browser asks for when I'm on a YouTube
>>> page (and even though this computer already had a current Flash Player
>>> plugin installed previously).
>>>
>>> Let me make it clear that privacy is not important to me _/*right now*/_
>>> during this quest to make the Flash Player plugin work with this Tor
>>> browser... I can reset any settings for maximum privacy later when I go
>>> back to that purpose for using Tor... right now, I'm just trying to make
>>> the Tor browser play Flash content.
>> i have gotten Flash content to play on Youtube with the Gnash player
>> plugin (using RequestPolicy to restrict who gets to see my requests) but it
>> is necessary to enable plugins and 3rd party cookies for the session.  even
>> then it doesnt work for all videos.  you can bypass Flash on Youtube if you
>> enable HTML5 enabled or manually add &webm=1 to the url, but it doesnt work
>> for all videos especially for those that interact with doubleclick.net (i
>> wouldnt be sad if someone nuked those parasites).
>>
>>> So even though I've /*UNCHECKED*/ the /*Torbutton>Preferences>Security
>>> Settings>Disable plugin during Tor usage*/ box, and I installed a new
>>> Flash player plugin /*THROUGH*/ this browser, and I even set it to allow
>>> all scripts because I thought maybe that was complicating things, /*IT
>>> STILL WILL NOT PLAY FLASH CONTENT OF ANY TYPE*/.
>>>
>>> /*Now, this, explained below, could be part of the problem that I'd like
>>> to ask for your help with...*/
>>>
>>> If I go to the Tor Browser folder on my hard drive at /*C:>Tor
>>> Browser>FirefoxPortable>Data>plugins*/ there are NO Flash plugin files
>>> that show up in that folder even after I install a new Flash Player
>>> plugin THROUGH this browser... I believe that is why it will not play
>>> Flash content.
>>
Yes, you CAN run unmodified Fx & the Tor proxy, but NO, it won't have 
the settings & modifications of TBB, that provide extra anonymity.  TBB 
is modified & Flash content (Flash Player) disabled for a reason.  It 
can leak your identity or make it easier to identify you.  If you don't 
care so much about that, maybe Tor isn't needed at all.

Don't know if there are apps / addons that allow d/l a flash video to 
disk, w/o playing the video - at same time capturing it.  Even if, extra 
apps / addons can present anonymity problems.  NoScript also blocks 
Flash, by default - for a reason.
The purpose of TBB isn't really to watch flash vids anonymously.