– important tools that help us engage with our audience and quantify how well we’re doing. Like all websites, ours contains embedded multimedia and code from external services like Google Analytics, Facebook “Like” buttons, etc. While using our Tor hidden service greatly increases your privacy, it’s important to note that it is, for the most part, the same website people see on the regular Internet.

While we’re not aware of any countries currently blocking access to ProPublica, I was curious to see what we could do to improve access to readers if that ever happens.

We actually launched it quietly as an experiment last year, shortly after publishing Inside the Firewall, an interactive news application about online media censorship in China. So we made our site available as a Tor hidden service to give readers a way to browse our site while leaving behind less of a digital trail. Our readers should never need to worry that somebody else is watching what they’re doing on our site. Readers use our interactive databases to see data that reveals a lot about themselves, such as whether their doctor receives payments from drug companies. We launched this in part because we do a lot of reporting, writing, and coding about issues like media censorship, digital privacy and surveillance, and breaches of private medical information. A Tor hidden service is a special type of website that can only be visited with Tor, masking your digital trail as much as possible (Disclosure: Outside of my work at ProPublica, I’m also the developer of Onion Browser, an unofficial Tor Browser for iOS.) onion URL is called a “Tor hidden service.” Tor is a network of internet relays (and a web browser that uses the network) that protects your privacy by hiding your browsing habits from your internet service provider, and hiding your IP address from the websites you visit. onion URL, and can redirect you to it, when you navigate to pages on This. (Recent versions of Tor Browser and Brave Browser automatically let you know about our. Once you’ve got it installed, copy and paste this URL into the running Tor browser: To do it, you’ll need a bit of software called the Tor Browser. There’s a new way to browse our website more securely and anonymously.

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