Hello, welcome to this new tutorial! Let's discover how to use Tor Browser,
the best one to surf the internet with the maximum protection over your
data, thanks to its network protocol based on onion routing.
To download Tor Browser go to torproject.org and click on Download. This
is completely free and it is available for Windows, Mac, Linux and also
Android.
Tor Browser provides the tightest protection over your data while surfing
the internet since its blocks data tracking from websites; performs
automatic cookie clean-up; hides internet activity from Internet Service
Providers and keeps safe your information from your devices thanks to its
fingerprint protection.
When you open Tor Browser click on Connect to run and establish a secure
Tor circuit. This relies on a three multi-level encryption where you
connect to three relays in series before opening the destination address,
just like the layers of an onion. On one hand, this really keeps your data
secure from other people and also gives you the possibility to visit
blocked sites.
On the other hand this three-layer connection slows your line connection
down, so you may not use Tor when downloading large files.
To verify this you can make a check on your IP address (or identity) with a
common browser and with Tor.
You can also search for any website with Tor. This uses DuckDuckGo as
search engine, which does not save or track any personal data.
On top you get a closed lock button when the current connection is secured
under the HTTPS certificate. You can click on it to check the whole Tor
circuit used, including the IP addresses of the three relays such as the
Guard one, the middle one and the Exit one. If you click on New Circuit
you establish a new Tor circuit by changing the relays addresses.
You can also go to New Identity to make a completely new identity by
restarting Tor.
On the right side you find several options, very similar to Mozilla
Firefox.
Go to Add-ons to browse, manage and install extensions from the ones
provided by Mozilla. By default you get HTTPS Everywhere - that loads just
HTTPS websites - and NoScript, that blocks the execution of codes from
non-secured sources.
Besides the Add-ons you can make a new tab, window, identity or a new tor
circuit. You can also save bookmarks, see your History, make a zoom on your
pages, discover the integrated Tools and also go to Help to find manual and
additional tips.
Moreover go to Settings to change options and languages and set how to open
specific file formats and manage your future updates.
On the left set the Home page to use, the search engine and, on Privacy and
Security, all the options for your security.
On Onion Services you can choose to open .onion websites with respect to
standard domains. Onion domains can be opened with Tor only and are much
safer since they allow encryption, hide IP addresses and have no need to
get a purchased domain. In case any website has an onion domain you can
simply switch with the proper button on top. The onion address is a long
sequence of letters with a .onion in the end.
You can also clean data and manage all your saved logins and passwords. On
Onion Authentication you get the list of the saved Onion Keys, such as
passwords needed to open some onion websites for an additional level
of security.
On Security set the level for the Tor browser. Standard is the default
option for the best user experience across most of websites. If you choose
Safer you may lose some functionalities, such as a playing video. Whereas
use Safest to visit suspicious websites by loading only text and a few
scripts.
At the bottom you can block dangerous content and downloads automatically.
Under Tor you can enable the connection to the Tor network automatically or
configure a Bridge to be able to visit blocked websites. Select a built-in
bridge or, in case none of the proposed ones works, you can forward a
request to torproject.org or provide a bridge with proper IP address and
port.
On Advanced you can set any Proxy specifying its type, its IP address and
proper credentials.
Thanks to this tight encryption Tor Browser has been chosen to visit
websites not indexed by search engines.
The Deep Web that is not indexed and includes fundamental scientific and governative
information to be kept secret and the Dark Web, which is made by
non-indexed private pages, some of these also quite dangerous, hosting
illegal practices.
To access the Deep and the Dark web you can simply performe a search to get an
updated list of onion links, beware the links you want to visit!!!
Since this can host scamers, hackers, malware and shall not the visited in a first place.
If you are an expert you can offer your network to the Tor circuit as a Tor
relay or bridge. The more relays exist, the more the Tor network is speedy
and smooth. You can choose to be a guard relay, a middle relay or an exit
relay if your internet bandwidth is 10 Mbit/s minimum. The first connection
goes to the Guard relay and the last one go to the Exit relay, which makes it
the most exposed in case of improper and illegal use of the Tor connection.
Whereas you may apply for a Bridge node to help people bypass blacklist
applied to any of the relays of the Tor connection. In this case it is
sufficient have a connection slower than 1 Mbit/s.
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