r/TOR

So, I kinda want to know the top 4 (since I'm pretty sure only 4 cn access .onion sites) to use Tor/visit .onion websites. Here's my rnking and correct me if I'm wrong.

1. Tor Browser (obviously, it's in the name)

2. Brave Browser (since there's the option to open all .onion sites in Tor Incognito Widnow)

3. Freenet (don't really have anything to say)

4. Firefox/Librewolf (since there's that 1 browser extension)

But anyways, correct me if I'm wrong with accesabilty or smth like that and I use Brave since it has extremly good privacy/security, I like to visit .onion sites and since Tor browser is too complicated for my limited knowledge.

Someone I know bought registry for the scream room because he/she were curious, they're saying the scream room will happen on the 1st of may but what I'm seeing is that they're constantly live until the first of may. Every now and then you see people coming on the screen and it looks like they're dragging people and sometimes you can hear people screaming. Has anyone actually seen what happens on the date that they say the

"scream room" will happen? Because I'm starting to get worried that it's a little too harsh

Hi yall, I got a ton of unused static IPs at home and my server mostly sits idle, so I was thinking about giving back to the community and hosting a relay. A few questions:

Are non-exit relays even needed? If so what sort of relays are most needed by the network? I can host a bridge, a guard/middle relay, and a webtunnel bridge. Also, the tor website states that the network would most benefit from non-linux relays. Why does the operating system it's hosted on matter?

Edit: Ignore my first two questions, I just found info addressing them. Still unsure why non-linux relays are needed. I can host a non-linux VM, but I'm unfamiliar with non-linux operating systems.

First of all, as a computer science student who has recently become interested in cybersecurity, I know that this is not possible. Actually, this post will be a series of questions.

Is Tor the best option?

Some websites can detect that you are using Tor; how is this possible?

Bridges: How do protocols like obfs4, used to prevent websites or governments from knowing that Tor is being used, work?

Correlation Attacks: If an attacker can monitor both your home internet and the traffic of the website you visit, can Tor really protect you?

Onion Services: What are the technical differences between .onion sites and standard sites?

is i2p better than tor?

Could somebody explain how the servers on proton vpn that have the tor support work & what they're all about ? I know vpn's are discussed more than enough here & i dont want to sound redundent so my question is slightly different in this regards

This sucks, I think reddit is worst everyday. I remember when reddit was like wild west, maybe someone will not like your opinion and that it's fine. People could post whatever, that was awesome. But these days mods are getting crazy, all governments wants to spy you. So TOR it's a good alternative, however reddit is not friendly with TOR if you create a new account using TOR and then you try to post something, even something harmless like "I like apples" reddit will say that your post is not passing filters and is deleted automatically.

It looks as reddit really want to know who you are, where you are, and more more information. In this world I'm afraid that if I say something that government or someone with power really don't like they will ask to reddit all my information to link my user to a real person, even reddit push to hard to install reddit app in your smartphone to track you and get more information from your profile, that sucks. Internet is becoming the new TV, in the 90s internet was something new and fresh.

wat is hidden service descriptor and is .onion address itself a public key?.And wat about DHT(Distributed Hash Table).TY

I’m not an expert in networking, Tor, or privacy research. I’m just an amateur who had an idea and wanted to share it with you.

The core idea is mine, but I used AI to rewrite it into a more formal paper format, so if the writing style looks too polished or “AI-ish,” that’s why. The paper is only there to organize the idea better. Excuse me for my laziness, but I really don't have the time to write it myself.

What I want is honest technical criticism.

The goal of the idea is not to “beat Tor” or claim perfect anonymity. It’s a narrower idea: making metadata analysis against one specific person harder by fragmenting what any one ISP can see, as I was annoyed by the idea of everything is going through the ISP even if it is encrypted, still annoying me.

I believe this could also reduce the Metadata analysis and Metadata fingerprint.

I described it in two levels: a cheaper/easier version using one main machine plus either one relay machine or one machine with isolated networks, multiple physical WANs, and multiple ISPs a stronger but more expensive version using multiple devices in different geographic places, each with different ISPs.

The idea is basically to divide requests/flows so that no single provider sees the full pattern. I already know the obvious objections are probably things like: traffic correlation still exists complexity may create more leaks the setup itself may become a fingerprint strong observers may still reconstruct a lot So I’m posting this to ask: where exactly is the biggest weakness? does this give any real privacy benefit at all? which threat models would it actually help against? is the complexity not worth the gain? I’d genuinely appreciate criticism from people who understand Tor, traffic analysis, metadata, and network architecture better than I do.

The file with details will be in the attached link.

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hello y want to install tor but the site dosn't work, i dont know if its a proble on my PC or on the website but if you can help me ...

Each time I click on the Tor Project website I am greeted with an " This Site Cant Provide A Secure Connection" message.

Does anybody know what is causing this? I Suspect this is to do with my Isp

I’ll be traveling to mainland China soon and I’m trying to plan ahead for internet access. I need to use sites like IBKR, and some US based banking sites, google, ChatGPT, and Perplexity

I have already installed Tor (the orbot app) on my android phone, which can serve as a vpn hotspot for my other devices to use Tor, and also tor command line tool in linux. What do I have to do in addition before traveling to make sure it will work? I hear that the entry nodes of the tor are also blocked in China, does anyone have experience of how to have a setting that will work stablly

Since I'm just starting to use Tor, I've seen reports online saying that some people, even while using Tor, have been hacked and had their data exposed, and that scared me a lot

And I'd like to know from you how secure Tor is, and how much effort a hacker would need to hack someone using Tor without a VPN and without exposing their personal data. From what I know, it's the best browser in the world for security, but I'd really like to know how secure I am, in percentages like 50% or 80%, something like that.

How much anonymity does TOR provide?

Even when individuals or companies use the Tor network with their technology and pass through a proxy to conceal their presence on the Tor network, detecting that the traffic originated from the Tor network can sometimes be extremely difficult. So, what is the state of government technology? For example, in America, during the Snowden case, we learned that the NSA had tools on a scale that many cybersecurity experts hadn't even imagined. How much anonymity does the Tor network provide in theory, and how can we know if IP addresses and/or transmitted data are being logged? Theoretically, is the only way to catch the person using the Tor network if all three layers are controlled by the same person simultaneously?

I’ve used the TOR browser on many desktops before I’m curious is using the TOR browser on my iPhone any good? And also does it give me the same access that my desktop would?

I’m a law lecturer, and this is a question I often discuss with my students when we talk about fundamental rights and online privacy. I’d be interested to see how people here approach it.

I’m not really asking whether Tor “should exist” in some simplistic sense. What interests me is the underlying balancing exercise: how much harmful conduct we are willing to tolerate in order to preserve meaningful online privacy, and why.

Tools like Tor can be used for entirely ordinary purposes — simply browsing without tracking, avoiding profiling, or keeping certain personal habits private that one would reasonably prefer not to expose.

At the same time, it is undeniable that the same infrastructure is also used for illegal and harmful activities, including various forms of black markets and organized wrongdoing.

So the issue is not whether the technology is “good” or “bad”, but how we weigh these competing values in practice.

If you had to choose, would you preserve strong privacy tools like Tor despite their misuse, or restrict them to prevent harm? Why?

And more importantly: what trade-offs are you actually willing to accept to preserve that privacy?