The Onion Router, now called Tor, is a privacy-focused web browser run by a nonprofit group.
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It’s a web browser. Slower than others and some pages won’t work but other than that, it does just that.

…I mean, it’s more like the web browser makes it easy to use the Tor network. The network is the slow part. Your requests are getting ping-ponged all over the world intentionally taking the long way around.

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