Tor Browser Recommendations

Comments primarily recommend or discuss using the Tor Browser to address privacy, tracking, blocking, or access issues, often comparing it to other solutions or questioning its effectiveness.

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Sample Comments

aw3c2 • Aug 3, 2016 • View on HN

Tor Browser does a lot of that.

dangayle • Jun 6, 2017 • View on HN

Isn't this one of the stated features of the Tor browser?

MomoXenosaga • Jun 24, 2021 • View on HN

This is what the TOR browser is for.

jstanley • Dec 20, 2023 • View on HN

What are you going to do? Not use Tor? That's hardly better.

john4532452 • Sep 28, 2020 • View on HN

Just use tor browser. Its fast enough to be usable now.

goodpoint • Sep 1, 2021 • View on HN

Use Tor, or at the very least, use Tor for DNS, otherwise it's pointless.

Phenomenit • May 4, 2019 • View on HN

Seems like tor browser is unaffected.

Mithrandir • Nov 29, 2010 • View on HN

Try using Tor.https://www.torproject.org/

whitehat2k9 • Apr 17, 2014 • View on HN

Sounds like someone forgot to use Tor.

bcrypt • Nov 13, 2019 • View on HN

Tor Browser does more than just proxying. See my response above.