There has been a growing awareness of the value of privacy in the wake of frequent online chicanery, including the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal. The Tor Project had also been working on an encrypted messaging app since 2014, though this never graduated beyond beta and was wound down in April. This launch comes just a few days after the main Tor Browser desktop client was updated with a bunch of new features, including improved language support, a new onboarding experience that better explains the benefits of Tor, and an easier way to bypass censorship via a “bridge” configuration. In addition to being encrypted and anonymized, as you would expect from a Tor browser, the Android app features tracker-blocking tools that isolate each website you visit to stop advertisers from following you, while cookies are cleared automatically once your session is over.įor now, you will have to use the Tor Project’s official proxy app, Orbot, in conjunction with the Tor Browser Android app - however, plans are afoot to make the Tor Browser a self-contained entity that works without requiring a proxy to connect to the Tor network.
