What is tor browser ? Can you tell me something about this ?

Dear Sneha,

The Tor Browser is a web broswer that anonymizes your web traffic using the Tor network, making it easy to protect your identity online.

If you're investigating a competitor, researching an opposing litigant in a legal dispute, or just think it's creepy for your ISP or the government to know what websites you visit, then the Tor Browser might be the right solution for you.

A few caveats: Browsing the web over Tor is slower than the clearnet, and some major web services block Tor users. Tor Browser is also illegal in authoritarian regimes that want to prevent citizens from reading, publishing, and communicating anonymously. Journalists and dissidents around the world have embraced Tor as a cornerstone of democracy online today, and researchers are hard at work improving Tor's anonymity properties.

Hello student ,

Tor browser is a special equipped browser which maintains your anonymity online. It doesn’t track its users by Search Engines, Websites,ISPs, Social media sites, etc. The Tor browser always applies three levels of proxy. It randomly connects to a public node. Thereby, the traffic is sent to other nodes by a random path of three levels and then the nodes connect to the website. Just like layers of onion, if one could peel one layer off, there is yet another layer. Data is encrypted layer by layer, thereby making sites and ISPs to track the user very difficult. The .onion sites are always accessed through the Tor browser as these allow only the private peers and doesn’t connect to the peers of the ISPSs Often people also use VPNs to add another level of security.

There are some disadvantages of tor that you should know before using it. Certainly, it gives anonymity to the user but the data transferred through browser is not encrypted. Therefore, it is very unlikely for a person to use http instead of https website on tor. For this reason, a person should not use tor in internet banking. However, if one has to simply browse internet and don’t want a stream of advertisement based on their search, tor is best.

Hope it will help you !