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Your ISP can see that you’re using Tor — it sees encrypted connections to Tor nodes but not the final sites you visit; Tor’s design hides destination servers and page content from local observers . Ho...
Using the Tor browser or accessing .onion sites is legal in many democracies — for example, commentators and privacy guides state that “using Tor is completely legal” in countries like the United Stat...
Verify .onion sites by cross-checking addresses against trusted directories (Dark.Fail, Ahmia, OnionLinks and similar), looking for cryptographic proofs like PGP signatures or uptime monitoring, and u...
Using the Tor Browser itself is legal in most democracies; authorities generally treat Tor as a privacy tool, not a crime, but some countries restrict or block it and may penalize use . Legal risk com...
Using the Tor Browser is legal in many jurisdictions, but legality depends on use: merely running Tor or visiting sites is not a crime in most countries, whereas downloading or knowingly possessing il...
Law enforcement does prosecute people linked to illegal activity on Tor, but prosecutions usually follow investigative work that links a person to crimes—often via operational mistakes, surveillance o...
Tor Browser sends DNS names inside the encrypted Tor circuit to the chosen exit relay; the exit relay performs DNS resolution and the ISP does not directly receive DNS queries from the client. . Tor’s...
Tor bridges and pluggable transports are designed to make it harder for ISPs and national censors to detect Tor connections by hiding or transforming the client’s first hop; the Tor Project reports re...
Tor Browser integrates NoScript as a built-in control layer that gives users granular, per-site management of JavaScript and other active content while also serving as the back-end for the browser’s S...
Your ISP can see that you’re using Tor, the Tor relay IPs you connect to, timing, packet sizes and volumes, and (unless you use bridges or obfuscation) the public relay addresses because those are pub...
Law enforcement cannot reliably link a Tor exit node's observed traffic to a specific user using exit-side metadata alone, because Tor’s design hides the sender's IP from the exit and traffic exits ap...
The Hidden Wiki family of directories are decentralized, user-edited and often mirror-driven indexes of .onion addresses that aggregate marketplaces, forums and services with varying levels of curatio...
In 2025 Tor Browser substantially reduces the chance that websites or ordinary trackers can link your browsing to your real IP address or device fingerprint, because it routes traffic through multiple...
HTTP (non‑HTTPS) sites visited over Tor can be observed by the Tor exit node operator because the final hop is unencrypted, so privacy and data theft risks exist when using HTTP rather than HTTPS . Mu...
The URL provided is an .onion address—an address format used for Tor “onion” services that are only reachable over the Tor network—and based on the reporting available it most closely resembles links ...
Merely using the Tor network or visiting Tor (“.onion”) sites is not, by itself, illegal in the United States and in most countries covered by the sources; legal risk turns on what you do while connec...
Law enforcement can sometimes link activity on onion services to real-world identities, but . Recent reporting on Tor’s tooling and experiments — including the Tor Project’s new beta VPN and ongoing t...
Using the Tor Browser itself is legal in most countries, but legality depends on jurisdiction and the activity you perform while using it — Tor protects privacy but does not make illegal acts lawful ....
Available reporting and guides consistently say a small group of authoritarian states both block and seek to criminalize tools for anonymity such as Tor — most frequently named are China, Iran, Russia...
German law currently does not categorically ban using the Tor Browser for lawful purposes; multiple privacy and VPN outlets state Tor is legal to download and use in Germany . At the same time, German...