What is the Tor Browser? - Use the Tor Browser

What is Tor? The Tor Project is a non-profit organization that conducts research and development on online privacy and anonymity. It is designed to stop people - including government agencies and companies - from studying your location or tracking your browsing habits. Based on that research, it provides technology that removes Internet users and websites through “transfers” run by thousands of volunteers around the world, making it very difficult for anyone to find a source of information or location for a user. Its software package - Tor's browser - can be downloaded and used to use that technology, with a different version available on Android smartphones. How to use the Tor Browser For most people, using Tor Browser is as easy as downloading and running it, just as you can download Chrome or Firefox. If you have never used Tor, the first thing you will notice is that it is slower - or at least, slower than normal internet browsing. However, Tor has accelerated ...