Orbot review: private Tor connections for Android apps
Is Orbot right for your phone? Explore this free open-source Tor VPN, its privacy limits, Android setup, Apple support and differences from Tor Browser.
Is Orbot right for your phone? Explore this free open-source Tor VPN, its privacy limits, Android setup, Apple support and differences from Tor Browser.
Privacy Badger from the EFF learns which third parties track you across pages and blocks them automatically, no rule lists to manage. It is built by a nonprofit that litigates for your rights, which is a rare kind of vendor. It blocks trackers rather than ads, and pairing it with uBlock Origin overlaps a little. […]
This open-source extension clicks the cookie banners for you, declining where it can and dismissing the rest, so browsing stops being an interrogation. It is the community-maintained continuation of the beloved original after its sale to an ad company. Some sites with dark patterns still need a manual click, and blocking banners is not the […]
Hyphanet, formerly Freenet, stores files in pieces across volunteers’ computers. There is no single server that holds the whole file, which removes an easy takedown target. It does not make every publisher impossible to identify. Writing style, timing, and the computer you insert from can still give you away. Inserting and fetching are slow. Unpopular […]
Tor is the backbone of anonymous networking: layered encryption through volunteer relays, hidden services that never reveal their location, and two decades of the most hostile scrutiny cryptography has seen. Every other tool here gets compared to it. Latency ruins everyday browsing, exit nodes can read unencrypted traffic, and its fame attracts both censors and […]
I2P builds a network layer where every participant routes traffic for everyone else, hiding sender and receiver alike. Hidden websites called eepsites, built-in torrent support and internal mail make it a parallel internet with its own culture. The community is smaller, discovery is slower, and it shines as a network of internal services more than […]
Tor Browser is the practical way to use Tor. Traffic goes through three volunteer relays so the site does not see your home IP, and no single relay is meant to see both who you are and where you are going. The bundle adds per-site isolation and fingerprint hardening so one Tor user looks like […]
Snowflake lets a normal browser or computer act as a short-lived entrance so someone on a censored network can reach Tor. You do not learn which sites they open. The traffic past you is still Tor traffic. You do see a connection from their network to yours, because your machine is the door. That is […]
Tor bridges are unlisted entrance relays for networks that block the public Tor relays. Tor Browser can request one itself. The Tor Project also hands them out at bridges.torproject.org after a captcha. obfs4 and Snowflake are transports: they make the first hop look less like a plain Tor connection. That raises the cost of blocking. […]
BellCrier breach check
Most people are, and never hear about it. BellCrier checks your email against known data breaches for free, then alerts you when it turns up in a new one, with exactly what leaked and how to fix it.