The Tor network has been an important tool for many groups of users over the years, including political dissidents and activists, journalists, researchers, and others who need to protect their browsing habits from various kinds of surveillance. The connections are encrypted and the routes are random, allowing users to avoid tracking and evade censorship in countries where the Internet is filtered. The network comprises a series of servers that route traffic through protected connections between the user and her destination. Like the desktop version of its software, the Android Tor Browser uses the Tor network to anonymize and protect users’ traffic and browsing information. There’s never been an official Tor Browser on mobile,” the Tor Project said in an announcement of the release.
In these same areas, there is often heavy surveillance and censorship online, so in the past year, we’ve focused on better supporting these users. “Mobile browsing is on the rise around the world, and in some parts, it is commonly the only way people access the internet. There have been other apps that would route mobile traffic through the Tor network, such as Orfox, but the Tor Project has been working on a standalone browser for Android for some time. The project, which maintains the Tor Browser and other software, on Friday released an early version of the browser for Android, its first mobile browser for any platform. And now that a large fraction of web browsing is done on mobile devices, it’s an opportune time for the Tor Project to release its first browser for Android.
It’s been 15 years since the first public release of Tor, the private network software, and the need for anonymous web browsing has likely never been greater, given the amount of online surveillance by governments as well as advertisers and social media companies.
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