

Under such censorship regimes the mere attempt to access a blocked service can raise suspicion and place you on a watch list. The first scenario is really important to journalists, activists and other people who work or live in countries where Internet activity is being monitored and certain websites, like Facebook, are banned. It can also help when you don't want that service to know your real IP address. Wait for the connection to be established. Its location may vary from app to app, but it’s usually on the app’s landing screen. Click on the connect button on the screen. iPhone users can choose between the Onion browser and the OrNet browser on the App Store. Tor can help in many cases, like when you don't want your ISP, or anyone else en route, to know that you are accessing a particular website or other type of service. There is an official Tor browser app for Android. The final destination of the traffic, for example a website, will see a Tor exit relay as the source, not the real user's device. The destination is known only by the exit relays which send the traffic back onto the public Internet after it's been anonymized through Tor. The network uses encryption and is built in such a way that no relay knows both the source and the final destination of a particular connection. Tor routes traffic through a series of random computers that participate in the network and which are known as relays or nodes.
