Add a way to disable Tor via admin policy
See original GitHub issueTest plan
- Fresh install of Brave (clean profile)
- Open
regedit
- For 64 bit, create the following keys:
BraveSoftware\Brave
under the existing key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Policies\
(for 32 bit, you can editHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\
) - Create a DWORD value at this path called
TorDisabled
and set the value as 1 - Launch Brave
- Verify
Managed by your organization
shows as the last item under the hamburger menu - If you click
Managed by your organization
, it should take you to brave://management - Verify no Tor options are shown in the UI
- Exit Brave
- Open the profile directory (
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data
)and look for the Tor executable (usually under a path likecpoalefficncklhjfpglfiplenlpccdb\1.0.6
). It should NOT be there.
Original issue description
https://twitter.com/dlepi/status/1012732537196765189
Via a method like these work: https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3
Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created 5 years ago
- Reactions:8
- Comments:21 (10 by maintainers)
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@notoriousturtle starting Monday, @simonhong will be looking at a group policy to completely disable Tor. Please stay tuned
I had to have my team uninstall this browser from our company’s computers because of TOR.