There is some evidence that Tor users can be de-anonymized by US law enforcement agencies and academic researchers.This means you are at risk of surveillance or malware injection via malicious exit nodes.

Your web traffic is fully decrypted and visible at the exit node, although it is not traceable to your identity.

Tor’s exit node can see your activity but not your IP address.

Tor’s guard node can see your public IP address but not your activity. While your browsing data is anonymous, it is not private.This hides your IP address from the websites you visit and prevents your ISP (Internet Service Provider) from monitoring your activity. Tor routes your web traffic through a network of randomized servers and protects it with three layers of encryption.If your needs are a simple way of hiding your identity and IP Tor browser will workīack to product details Add your review. Tor in its comments indicated not to add extensions on as this would degrade its protection so on will have to run the browser as is.However Tor stated one can download the complete package to insure all features could be implemented.ĭepending on the nodes at the time the browser is open can slow down the web page to a small degree that is being opened, but is acceptable in my opinion I ran checks on tor to determine if it was hiding my IP and it did without any problems. Main GUI is basic enter a URL and your on your way.Ī green onion icon in the upper left will show you what nodes your IP is going through, and you can change these at a second, this makes it very attractive in protecting your identity. click on the icon and your up and anonymous. Installation of this application went smoothed with no glitches. Tor has provided the user a simplified browser which requires no configuration and from the get go your up and running.

Tor browser review 2016