To remove the configuration files, re-install tor and polipo, then purge them (remove removes the application, but leaves the system configuration files.
sudo apt-get purge tor polipo
From the apt-get man page
purge
purge is identical to remove except that packages are removed and
purged (any configuration files are deleted too).
Warning: Under no circumstances is it safe to use BitTorrent and Tor together. As an alternative, a VPN will be "safe" if you trust the VPN (in many countries, ISP's are required to log while VPN's are not), or you could use an anonymising network that was designed for file-sharing, such as I2P.
Proceed at your own risk.
How Tor-Browser uses Transmission
If I try to download a (legal!) torrent in the Tor Browser version of Firefox, it launches Transmission to do so. ... If, however, I try to launch Transmission from its location (usr/bin/transmission-gtk), it starts Transmission "fresh"
There is only one copy of the actual program, in /usr/bin/
as you noted. What Tor-browser does is start Transmission with a separate profile, so that torrents will be downloaded over Tor (this is usually slower). If you wish to download the torrent normally instead, start the normal Transmission, and then either save a torrent from Tor-browser and load it, or copy-and-paste the link from Tor-browser. The alternative is to simply browse using regular Firefox and click on the .torrent
link, which should open normal Transmission.
Use one common profile for Tor-Transmission and regular Transmission
If you want Transmission to use a common profile for both normal and Tor-browser torrents, you can do the following: (step-by-step not given because it is very easy to lose all currently downloading/paused torrents when you do this!)
- Regular Transmission profile is stored in
$HOME/.config/transmission
- Tor-browser Transmission profile is inside the tor-browser directory, e.g.
tor-browser_en-US/.config/transmission
- To create a common profile, you must create a symlink from one to the other using
ln -s
; of the two profiles, remove the transmission folder (rm -rf
) of the one which is least used or contains fewer torrents (you will lose these); then recreate it as a symlink to the other transmission directory.
- I recommend leaving the normal config ($HOME/.config) intact and linking the Tor config to it; if you do the reverse, your Transmission may not download unless you are connected to Tor. Note that your torrent downloading will occur over your regular, non-anonymous network in this case, even if you click on a torrent from within Tor-browser!
Best Answer
It is not impossible to configure chrome to use Tor. You can do this by, for eg:
or by other methods as described here.
Note that this is highly discouraged, because using any browser besides Tor Browser with Tor is not going to give you the protection you needed. The Tor Project advises against this because their discussions with Chrome team to add missing APIs, mainly - Web Request, Content Scripts, and the Proxy APIs - that would be useful for privacy enhancing extensions, were unsuccessful. There are also several bugs that should be dealt with before even a low-grade privacy-by-design can be provided through Tor in Chrome's Incognito mode.
So, in short,as said in the FAQ :