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This is of interest, and was asked earlier about Netflix, but I'd like to do this for a low-bandwidth application. That is, if I'm in the U.S., and I'd like the site I'm looking at to see that my request is from the U.S. If I were to use ExitNodes to do this, what would that .torrc line look like? On a Mac OS, where exactly does that .torrc file go?

Now, I understand that this would hugely constrain my available network, and wouldn't be advisable if I didn't have to do it, but I'd still like to understand how to do it. Sure would be nice if there were a more user-friendly way of selecting that option.

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  • @Jobiwan I should have directed the question here ... it looks like /opt/etc/.torrc isn't right for Mac OX 10.6. There isn't an /opt/etc. Now, when I do Settings->Advanced, it tells me that there is a torrc (not .torrc) in /USER/Library/Vidalia. Is that where the ExitNodes should go? Now, strangely, there is also a /USER/.tor directory. Is that relevant here? – user618 Dec 04 '13 at 19:52
  • I edited my original answer. I just tried this. You should edit torrc in Tor Browser/Library/Vidalia/ inside the Tor Browser package. – Jobiwan Dec 08 '13 at 11:14
  • The question specifically mentions the alleged duplication and says why it is not a duplicate of those. – WGroleau Jun 16 '15 at 10:59
  • if you install via homebrew, then the path to the torrc file is /usr/local/etc/tor/torrc and you can add the lines at the end of the file. – james-see Nov 02 '17 at 17:53

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torrc sits in /opt/etc/tor/

On Mac OS X, the torrc file is within the application. For version 4.5.2, the path is (path)/TorBrowser.app/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/torrc (So all users get the same settings, unless they have their own copy of the browser). “New tor circuit” and “new identity” do not re-read the file—if you want to select a country in this way, you must edit then exit the browser and re-launch it.

The line would be:

ExitNodes node, node, ...

where node is.. (Quoted from Tor Manual)

a list of identity fingerprints, nicknames, country codes and address patterns. (Example: ExcludeNodes SlowServer, ABCD1234CDEF5678ABCD1234CDEF5678ABCD1234, {cc}, 255.254.0.0/8)

The country code is {us}

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torrc file should have this lines:

ExitNodes {us}
StrictNodes 1
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