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[–] mfat@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Carburetor is an elegant, user-friendly GUI for TOR with the following features:

  • System proxy toggle - turn system-wide traffic routing on/off
  • Select exit note country
  • FascistFirewall mode - restrict connections to port 80 and 443
  • Set custom ports for local SOCKS, HTTP and DNS
  • Select TOR bridge types
  • Add custom bridges
  • Works everywhere -available as Flatpak for maximum compatibility, no need to mess with system files
[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 7 points 1 week ago

I fucking love GTK

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Turns out this is also available in Alpine repositories, so I went ahead and installed it on my phone. Could come in handy when browsing from public Wi-Fi or such. Thanks for the tip.

[–] dann@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Great app. Using it on my phone for about a year.

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

total noob question, apologies. but does this run alongside a VPN?

[–] mfat@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 week ago

that makes perfect sense, thank you.