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DarkMX is a decentralised comms app that utilises Tor and I2P to have an anonymous, reliable, and censorship-resistant presence on the internet

2026-01-122026-01-12 Danie
A dark interface displays bandwidth usage, with two graphs showing incoming and outgoing bytes per second over time, peak traffic visible.

Like many services which use Tor or I2P network, users tend to remain anonymous, and pretty well much everything goes, so this is not a child-friendly network. The focus on this particular network though is […]

Blogdecentralised, I2P, privacy, technology, tor

How Tor Can Help You Be More Anonymous on the Internet

2025-12-022025-12-02 Danie
Close-up of the Tor Browser app on a smartphone screen, displaying its logo, rating of 4.4 stars, and download size of 92 MB.

Whilst a Tor browser can access normal HTTPS websites, it can also access onion websites and the dark web (where there is no age verification required). The linked article is quite comprehensive in that it […]

Blogcensorship, darkweb, privacy, technology, tor

Tor’s new WebTunnel bridges mimic HTTPS traffic to evade censorship

2024-03-122024-03-12 Danie
Purple background with title Tor in white font. The letter o appears as an onion.

The Tor Project officially introduced WebTunnel, a new bridge type specifically designed to help bypass censorship targeting the Tor network by hiding connections in plain sight. It makes it harder to block Tor connections by […]

Blogcensorship, technology, tor

Mullvad browser : Mullvad and Tor Project’s new privacy-focused browser doesn’t use the Tor network, but VPNs instead

2023-04-032023-04-05 Danie
Mullvad Browser

The Mullvad browser’s main goal is to make it harder for advertisers and other companies to track you across the internet. It does this by working to reduce your browser’s “fingerprint,” a term that describes […]

Blogbrowsers, Mullvadbrowser, privacy, technology, tor

It’s a myth that using a VPN somehow makes everything private, and protects from malware and hackers

2022-04-202022-04-20 Danie
Tor VPN

This article actually emerged from a debate on Lemmy (an alternative to Reddit) recently, and I found it does explain quite clearly why many so-called reasons for using VPN’s, in fact, don’t provide those protections, […]

Blogprivacy, security, technology, tor, VPN
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