You might have heard of Tor already, yet never dared to try it yourself.
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You might have heard of Tor already,
yet never dared to try it yourself.Despite being around for decades,
Tor is still a tool too few people know about. Tor is essential to journalists, activists, whistleblowers, dissidents, and people in vulnerable situations everywhere.Thanks to Tor, activists have a safe way to continue fighting for human rights and resist censorship from oppressive regimes.
Here's how Tor works,
and why you should support it.https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/30/in-praise-of-tor/
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You might have heard of Tor already,
yet never dared to try it yourself.Despite being around for decades,
Tor is still a tool too few people know about. Tor is essential to journalists, activists, whistleblowers, dissidents, and people in vulnerable situations everywhere.Thanks to Tor, activists have a safe way to continue fighting for human rights and resist censorship from oppressive regimes.
Here's how Tor works,
and why you should support it.https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/30/in-praise-of-tor/
@Em0nM4stodon I haven't heard of it, but I'm excited to try it; at a time when spaces are shrinking around us, we might find it a refuge.
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You might have heard of Tor already,
yet never dared to try it yourself.Despite being around for decades,
Tor is still a tool too few people know about. Tor is essential to journalists, activists, whistleblowers, dissidents, and people in vulnerable situations everywhere.Thanks to Tor, activists have a safe way to continue fighting for human rights and resist censorship from oppressive regimes.
Here's how Tor works,
and why you should support it.https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/30/in-praise-of-tor/
I have Tor.
I also use locked down settings in Brave browser.
I run on Mac with high privacy settings incl Do Not Track.
I establish a Tor session.
I browse random stuff I've never browsed before, including vegetable greenhouses... .
Close Tor session.
Next day.... wife's browser in her Windows pc is serving Greenhouse advertisements in facebook.
HOW?
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You might have heard of Tor already,
yet never dared to try it yourself.Despite being around for decades,
Tor is still a tool too few people know about. Tor is essential to journalists, activists, whistleblowers, dissidents, and people in vulnerable situations everywhere.Thanks to Tor, activists have a safe way to continue fighting for human rights and resist censorship from oppressive regimes.
Here's how Tor works,
and why you should support it.https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/30/in-praise-of-tor/
This is why I hate the term "dark web": AFAICT, what that term was originally supposed to mean was collectively everything that is not indexed by search engines or literally can't be. That's a lot of things and most of it boring, and most of it never should be indexed by search engines anyway. The portion of that that's available only via Tor—which, in all fairness, absolutely does exist—is a very, very small fraction. Financial institutions, for example, talk to each other by means that technically involve an internet connection at some point; that satisfies the meaning of "dark" in this context, AS WELL IT SHOULD. You don't want to run your credit card and have that transaction be visible to web crawlers: the bad guys who steal people's credit card information are capable of googling things just like anyone else can. None of that has anything to do with Tor. Also, Tor is not the only anonymous network that is publically available, although it is definitely the most common. So the stigma that affects Tor—which absolutely does exist as well, sadly—is born mostly from the omission of facts that are relevant when talking about it. That's still the case even if no one says anything about it that's false.
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You might have heard of Tor already,
yet never dared to try it yourself.Despite being around for decades,
Tor is still a tool too few people know about. Tor is essential to journalists, activists, whistleblowers, dissidents, and people in vulnerable situations everywhere.Thanks to Tor, activists have a safe way to continue fighting for human rights and resist censorship from oppressive regimes.
Here's how Tor works,
and why you should support it.https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/30/in-praise-of-tor/
@Em0nM4stodon have you tried i2p? What is your experience in it.
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I have Tor.
I also use locked down settings in Brave browser.
I run on Mac with high privacy settings incl Do Not Track.
I establish a Tor session.
I browse random stuff I've never browsed before, including vegetable greenhouses... .
Close Tor session.
Next day.... wife's browser in her Windows pc is serving Greenhouse advertisements in facebook.
HOW?
@Sunny @Em0nM4stodon never underestimate how deep surveillance goes.
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You might have heard of Tor already,
yet never dared to try it yourself.Despite being around for decades,
Tor is still a tool too few people know about. Tor is essential to journalists, activists, whistleblowers, dissidents, and people in vulnerable situations everywhere.Thanks to Tor, activists have a safe way to continue fighting for human rights and resist censorship from oppressive regimes.
Here's how Tor works,
and why you should support it.https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/30/in-praise-of-tor/
@Em0nM4stodon There's also https://freenet.org/
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This is why I hate the term "dark web": AFAICT, what that term was originally supposed to mean was collectively everything that is not indexed by search engines or literally can't be. That's a lot of things and most of it boring, and most of it never should be indexed by search engines anyway. The portion of that that's available only via Tor—which, in all fairness, absolutely does exist—is a very, very small fraction. Financial institutions, for example, talk to each other by means that technically involve an internet connection at some point; that satisfies the meaning of "dark" in this context, AS WELL IT SHOULD. You don't want to run your credit card and have that transaction be visible to web crawlers: the bad guys who steal people's credit card information are capable of googling things just like anyone else can. None of that has anything to do with Tor. Also, Tor is not the only anonymous network that is publically available, although it is definitely the most common. So the stigma that affects Tor—which absolutely does exist as well, sadly—is born mostly from the omission of facts that are relevant when talking about it. That's still the case even if no one says anything about it that's false.
@plutarch curious - what are some other anon networks? I’ve only ever heard of tor
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You might have heard of Tor already,
yet never dared to try it yourself.Despite being around for decades,
Tor is still a tool too few people know about. Tor is essential to journalists, activists, whistleblowers, dissidents, and people in vulnerable situations everywhere.Thanks to Tor, activists have a safe way to continue fighting for human rights and resist censorship from oppressive regimes.
Here's how Tor works,
and why you should support it.https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/30/in-praise-of-tor/
@Em0nM4stodon Mostly I don't use TOR because for every five websites I've wanted to visit via TOR, there seemed to be six things I was doing wrong that actually made me less anonymous than if I used a regular browser on clearweb only
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You might have heard of Tor already,
yet never dared to try it yourself.Despite being around for decades,
Tor is still a tool too few people know about. Tor is essential to journalists, activists, whistleblowers, dissidents, and people in vulnerable situations everywhere.Thanks to Tor, activists have a safe way to continue fighting for human rights and resist censorship from oppressive regimes.
Here's how Tor works,
and why you should support it.https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/30/in-praise-of-tor/
The more users the safer it becomes.
In addition, when you encounter a sight requiring some form of login signing and identifying to proceed with content, block it and report it .. you can survive well without them. Don't let a handful of coroporations ruining the internet for everyone.Age verification is a just a deep state cover-up for identifying adults.
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