Tor Browser

Tor Browser is a free browser from the Tor Project that protects against tracking, surveillance and censorship by routing traffic through the Tor network, available for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android, published in around thirty languages with signed downloads and an alpha channel.

Publishing a cryptographic signature beside every download is a detail most software skips and it matters enormously here. A user in a country that censors the internet is exactly the person an attacker would target with a modified build, so being able to verify that the file came from the Tor Project is part of the protection rather than an extra.

Translation into around thirty languages including Persian, Arabic, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Turkish and Vietnamese is not a localisation exercise, it is the product working. Circumvention software that only exists in English fails the people who most need it, and the language list reads as a map of where censorship is a daily condition.

What Tor Browser trades for its protection should be stated clearly: routing through several relays makes browsing slower, some sites block Tor traffic outright, and the anonymity depends on using the browser as shipped rather than customising it. It is free, open source and funded by donations.