[tor-talk] Tor Browser and my location

Kit Carson McGuire kitmcguire at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 20:32:28 UTC 2015


I played with it a tad and see that 
(https://www.google.com/?noj=0&gws_rd=ssl&ncr) does work although at the 
bottom right of the page it gives the option to use https://www.google.de 
instead. Minor annoyance. IF it eventually works like Firefox it should be 
nice! I'm just an end user and not a programmer/tech. Still wondering the 
advantage of Tor over Firefox. Also wondering what if someone never 
installed Firefox before. Will Tor still work or function?


Kit McGuire
206 N. Titel St.
Payson, AZ 85541
928.978.3795
Check me out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KitMcGuire
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Tasker" <ben at bentasker.co.uk>
To: <tor-talk at lists.torproject.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser and my location


> You'll want that to be https://www.google.com/ncr?noj=0&gws_rd=ssl (note
> the lack of trailing slash)
>
> But, it looks like it strips the query string when it redirects you to
> google.com though, so it may not be possible to keep the noj & gws_ssl.
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Kit Carson McGuire <kitmcguire at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I tried to append (https://www.google.com/ncr/?noj=0&gws_rd=ssl) and I
>> get the 404 error code is all.
>>
>>
>> Kit McGuire
>> 206 N. Titel St.
>> Payson, AZ 85541
>> 928.978.3795
>> Check me out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KitMcGuire
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Tasker" <ben at bentasker.co.uk>
>> To: <tor-talk at lists.torproject.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 12:57 PM
>> Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser and my location
>>
>>
>>
>> Google will redirect you to a region specific version of Google based on
>>> geo-location of your source IP. This the the IP of the Tor exit node
>>> you're
>>> using, which is why it differs to your location.
>>>
>>> If you set your homepage to https://www.google.com/ncr (append the query
>>> string you want to use if desired) you should stay on the .com domain
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Kit Carson McGuire 
>>> <kitmcguire at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I do like Tor Browser, but I'd like to know why the Tor Browser places 
>>> me
>>>> (according to Google) everywhere except where I am actually located? I 
>>>> am
>>>> in central Arizona, but every time I open Tor Browser my start page (
>>>> https://www.google.com/?noj=0&gws_rd=ssl) changes to various other
>>>> countries, ie: sometimes Italy, Netherlands, Germany, etc. but never
>>>> USA! I
>>>> would like to see Tor Browser open and load my home page(s) as I prefer
>>>> all
>>>> the time!
>>>>
>>>> Kit McGuire
>>>> 206 N. Titel St.
>>>> Payson, AZ 85541
>>>> 928.978.3795
>>>> Check me out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KitMcGuire
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