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Tor bridges

The use and discovery of Tor bridges to evade censorship

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Jan 25, 2026
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How do Tor bridges differ from public relays and how are they discovered?

are functionally ordinary Tor relays configured to be “hidden” — they do not appear in the public Tor directory and are intended to let users reach Tor when public relays are censored or when revealin...

Jan 20, 2026

What additional tools or practices (VPNs, bridges, HTTPS) improve privacy when using Tor?

Tor is a powerful anonymity tool but not a magic bullet; layering additional tools and disciplined practices — selectively using trusted VPNs, Tor bridges and pluggable transports, end-to-end encrypti...