The Guardian web site is now accessible to Tor customers as an “onion service”, at the tackle:
https://www.guardian2zotagl6tmjucg3lrhxdk4dw3lhbqnkvvkywawy3oqfoprid.onion
The Tor network helps conceal its users’ areas, which helps make monitoring their world wide web activity a great deal additional difficult. Tor also helps make it more challenging for internet services suppliers to establish what their end users are accessing. This indicates people can bypass censorship in sections of the environment where by accessibility to impartial information could be tricky or if specific web-sites and services are banned.
Guardian visitors have constantly been in a position to obtain https://www.theguardian.com employing equipment such as Tor Browser. These browsers route their communications in excess of the Tor community – thus concealing the reader’s location. But the browsers’ communications have to exit the Tor network for the closing leg of the journey in purchase to get to the website on the normal earth extensive world-wide-web.
The introduction of a Guardian onion assistance implies that the complete interaction pathway involving a reader and the Guardian will take place inside the Tor community, thereby keeping away from prospective dangers with the “hop” between the Tor community and the globe large web service. An illustration of these a chance could be that the “exit node” – the gateway concerning the typical world-wide-web and the Tor network – could incorporate destructive software package or be situated somewhere that is subject matter to censorship.
Our onion support also promotes anonymity in other ways. We hope to minimise the digital breadcrumbs that get left by reader activity and that could enable malign actors from identifying them. Buyers of the Guardian’s onion services will not be equipped to produce Guardian accounts or signal in to their present account (if they have one particular). And the web site does not contain any third-social gathering promoting or sharing of info with 3rd get-togethers.
Our onion assistance also disables the scripts that ordinarily operate in readers’ browsers. Some Tor consumers by now disable scripts for protection causes. By disabling them for all end users of our onion site we hope to guarantee that all people has the very same expertise and protections. This should also aid with functionality on the Tor community, which is usually substantially slower than typical world wide web searching as Tor community depends on volunteers to donate bandwidth. We hope that our fashionable server side rendering tier will offer a excellent user knowledge on our onion web site. Having said that, some advanced, interactive articles may well not work as competently.
If you already access https://www.theguardian.com making use of the Tor Project’s Tor Browser, you ought to now see a message in your browser’s spot bar showing “.onion available”. This provides you the choice to use the Guardian’s onion services in its place.
Considering the fact that 2014, the Guardian has printed a SecureDrop internet site as an onion company, to make it possible for whistleblowers to get in touch securely. For a lot more about our SecureDrop onion company, remember to see in this article.
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