
Plus, Tor asks you, during its installation, wherever this is your case so as to find out how to better serve you without alerting your Internet Service Provider (ISP) about this fact. For that very reason, Tor created a direct channel of contact with the developers so to help whoever needs it to get a mirror that is still "downloadable". Thanks to the perceived degree of anonymity of a place - called Dark Web - where hosting a Hidden Service that could only be accessed through encrypted and proxified connections has become finally possible, the Tor Browser rapidly became a host for criminal activities, but also for Human Rights-related URLs.Īs soon as the Dark Web state of technical arts was discovered, some governments have rashed in blocking, nationwide, the access to Tor Browser - basically, to block the Installing Page.

onion will usually not open (misconfigurations excluded) through a Mozilla Browser. com website easily accessible through Mozilla shall still open- depending on the configurations and although powered by a lower connection speed (attributed to the traffic routing) - within the Tor Browser, a.

For a long-time, the Dark Web has been known for being (still an HTML-based) place that could only be accessed through the help of special browsers – the so-called The Onion Router (Tor) Browser.
