The website can’t see where you’re coming from, only that you’re using Tor. Instead, your connection first bounces between three Tor nodes and then finally exits the Tor network and goes to the website. Within the network, consisting of thousands of nodes run by volunteers across the internet, you do not connect from your house directly to the web server. Even Tor itself won’t know what you’re up to. The website can see where you are coming from (and track you), and your internet service provider can see which website you’re loading (and track what you’re doing and sell advertising based on your activity).īut if you open Tor Browser and load the same website, none of those parties can spy on you.

When you load a website in a normal web browser like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge, you make a connection over the internet directly from your house (or wherever you happen to be) to the web server you’re loading. Tor Browser Lets People Browse the Web Anonymously Websites that end in “.onion” are known as Tor onion services - or if you want to be dramatic about it, the “dark web.” Here’s how it all works.

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