Notes 
Tor, short for The Onion Router, is for enabling anonymous communication. It directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer overlay network, consisting of more than six thousand relays, for concealing a user’s location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis.
Reviewed by Marco Wollank
Tor
torproject.org 4.7 (20)
Anonymizing Networks Browsers Android Browsers Open Source E2E encrypted No account Decentralized Tor Windows macOS Linux Android iOS Free
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Threat level
Targeted
A targeted-tier tool. Built for a real, capable adversary. Overkill for everyone below. Threat levels
Our take
Slow by design, and treating that as a defect means you’ve misread what it’s for. Use it when anonymity genuinely matters and you can accept pages loading at their own pace, not as a daily browser where you expect video to stream. For the threat model it was built around, hiding who and where you are from network observers, there is simply nothing comparable. Wrong tool for casual speed, right tool when it counts.
GitHub at a glance
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Last commit
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Website at a glance
torproject.org
A+ score 115
Strong website security headers
Graded by Mozilla HTTP Observatory, tested 2d ago
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Measures the security configuration of the tool's own website, not the privacy of the product itself. A strong tool can still score low here.
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