

★ PRIVACY MADE EASY: Check out our fun, interactive walkthrough: ★ PRIVACY FOR EVERYONE: Tor can help you confidentially research a competitor, get around the Facebook block at school, or circumvent a firewall to watch sports at work.

★ PRIVACY FOR APPS: Any installed app can use Tor if it has a proxy feature, using the settings found here: Use Orbot with Twitter, or try private web searching with DuckDuckGo: This process takes a little longer, but the strongest privacy and identity protection available is worth the wait. Orbot bounces your encrypted traffic several times through computers around the world, instead of connecting you directly like VPNs and proxies. ★ ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES: Orbot is the safest way to use the Internet on Android. As the New York Times writes, “when a communication arrives from Tor, you can never know where or whom it’s from.” Tor won the 2012 Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Pioneer Award. Orbot is the only app that creates a truly private internet connection.

You can also try to change Orbot's "Tor SOCKS" setting under the Debug section to 9051 or AUTO. On some devices, a Samsung app is listening on the same network port that Orbot needs. The last release with KitKat and older support is: *** *** Android 4.0 and lower, you can download older versions from or through the open app store at. Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. Orbot uses Tor to encrypt your Internet traffic and then hides it by bouncing through a series of computers around the world. Orbot is a free proxy app that empowers other apps to use the internet more securely.
