- <h3>Malicious Governments</h3>
-
- <p>Malicious governments often spy on their citizens to punish dissent or human rights activity. They commonly either
- operate the local ISPs or they can force them to disclose information showing every IP address that is visited
- by each user. Tor is designed to defeat this infringement of privacy by encrypting the traffic
- from a user’s device and routing it through three separate servers on the internet before sending it on to the final destination.
- This means that no individual ISP, server, or website, can know both the <a href="https://ipleak.net">IP address the user’s device</a>
- and the IP address of the final web server. Malicious governments and the ISPs they control cannot tell which
- web servers a user is accessing, although they can tell that the user is using Tor. In some parts of
- the world, using Tor could be construed as an evidence of illegal behavior (“if you didn’t have anything
- to hide you wouldn’t be encrypting your traffic”) and users could be punished because governments
- assume they are doing something that is prohibited. Thus, Tor can be helpful, but isn’t a panacea.</p>
-
-
- <h3>Mega Corporations</h3>
-
- <p>When a user connects to a web server, the web server can see the user’s IP address. Although it isn’t a perfect science,
- IP addresses can be turned into physical addresses with a <a href="https://www.whatismyip.com/">fair amount of accuracy</a>.
- Small web servers typically rely on IP addresses to identify the location of the users visiting their site.
- Tor is a good solution to mask the user’s location from these servers. But large mega corporations
- that own social media and advertising networks use a whole profile of information that is designed to track users
- across devices and IP addresses. These profiles employ a variety of techniques to identify users, including JavaScript,
- cookies, tracking IDs, and <a href="https://panopticlick.eff.org/">browser fingerprinting</a>. Because the vast majority
- of the websites on the internet either load an ad from one of the major networks or embed social media icons with their
- associated JavaScript, these corporations have built profiles for almost every user online and can track their internet
- activity across unrelated sites.</p>
-
- <p>They track every site that is visited, everything that is purchased, every credit card that is used to
- make a purchase, every address that items are shipped to, and the GPS metadata of every picture that is
- uploaded to the internet. They build a profile of a user’s age, gender, marital status, address, political affiliations,
- religious affiliations, family circumstances, number of pets, and everything else they can get their hands on.
- They even buy up databases of credit card transactions at local stores, so they can track the off-line purchasing patterns of the users
- in their profiles. Because they already have much more accurate address information about a user than an IP address discloses,
- Tor provides no real privacy protection against mega corporations.</p>
-
- <p>The single best privacy protection against mega corporations is to browse the web with JavaScript disabled, followed
- by blocking ad networks, disabling cookies and DOM storage, and using a browser that is difficult to fingerprint.</p>
-
-
- <h3>Using Tor</h3>
-
- <p>Despite its limitations, Tor can be useful in some circumstances. The Tor project has an app for Android called Orbot,
- which is available on <a href="https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=orbot&fdid=org.torproject.android">F-Droid</a>
- and everywhere else that Privacy Browser is distributed. Privacy Browser has a setting to use Orbot as
- a proxy. When this is turned on, Privacy Browser’s app bar will have a light blue background instead of
- the default light grey. When Privacy Browser’s Orbot proxy setting is enabled, internet access
- will not work unless Orbot is running and connected to Tor. Because traffic is being routed through several Tor nodes,
- using Tor is often much slower than connecting directly to the internet.</p>
+ <h3><img class="title" src="../shared_images/language_blue_dark.png"> Malicious Governments</h3>
+
+ <p>Malicious governments often spy on their citizens to punish dissent or human rights activity.
+ They commonly either operate the local ISPs or they can force them to disclose information showing every IP address that is visited by each user.
+ Tor is designed to defeat this infringement of privacy by encrypting the traffic from a user’s device and routing it through three separate servers on the internet
+ before sending it on to the final destination.
+ This means that no individual ISP, server, or website, can know both the <a href="https://ipleak.net">IP address the user’s device</a> and the IP address of the final web server.
+ Malicious governments and the ISPs they control cannot tell which web servers a user is accessing, although they can tell that the user is using Tor.
+ In some parts of the world, using Tor could be construed as an evidence of illegal behavior (“if you didn’t have anything to hide you wouldn’t be encrypting your traffic”)
+ and users could be punished because governments assume they are doing something that is prohibited. Thus, Tor can be helpful, but isn’t a panacea.</p>
+
+
+ <h3><img class="title" src="../shared_images/language_blue_dark.png"> Mega Corporations</h3>
+
+ <p>When a user connects to a web server, the web server can see the user’s IP address.
+ Although it isn’t a perfect science, IP addresses can be turned into physical addresses with a <a href="https://www.whatismyip.com/">fair amount of accuracy</a>.
+ Small web servers typically rely on IP addresses to identify the location of the users visiting their site. Tor is a good solution to mask the user’s location from these servers.
+ But large mega corporations that own social media and advertising networks use a whole profile of information that is designed to track users across devices and IP addresses.
+ These profiles employ a variety of techniques to identify users, including JavaScript, cookies, tracking IDs, and <a href="https://panopticlick.eff.org/">browser fingerprinting</a>.
+ Because the vast majority of the websites on the internet either load an ad from one of the major networks or embed social media icons with their associated JavaScript,
+ these corporations have built profiles for almost every user online and can track their internet activity across unrelated sites.</p>
+
+ <p>They track every site that is visited, everything that is purchased, every credit card that is used to make a purchase, every address that items are shipped to,
+ and the GPS metadata of every picture that is uploaded to the internet.
+ They build a profile of a user’s age, gender, marital status, address, political affiliations, religious affiliations, family circumstances, number of pets,
+ and everything else they can get their hands on.
+ They even buy up databases of credit card transactions at local stores, so they can track the off-line purchasing patterns of the users in their profiles.
+ Because they already have much more accurate address information about a user than an IP address discloses, Tor provides no real privacy protection against mega corporations.</p>
+
+ <p>The single best privacy protection against mega corporations is to browse the web with JavaScript disabled, followed by blocking ad networks, disabling cookies and DOM storage,
+ and using a browser that is difficult to fingerprint.</p>
+
+
+ <h3><img class="title" src="../shared_images/orbot_blue_dark.png"> Using Tor</h3>
+
+ <p>Despite its limitations, Tor can be useful in some circumstances.
+ The Tor project has an app for Android called Orbot, which is available on <a href="https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=orbot&fdid=org.torproject.android">F-Droid</a>
+ and everywhere else that Privacy Browser is distributed. Privacy Browser has a setting to use Orbot as a proxy.
+ When this is turned on, Privacy Browser’s app bar will have a light blue background instead of the default light grey.
+ When Privacy Browser’s Orbot proxy setting is enabled, internet access will not work unless Orbot is running and connected to Tor.
+ Because traffic is being routed through several Tor nodes, using Tor is often much slower than connecting directly to the internet.</p>