The Guardian web page is now available to Tor customers as an “onion service”, at the deal with:

https://www.guardian2zotagl6tmjucg3lrhxdk4dw3lhbqnkvvkywawy3oqfoprid.onion

The Tor community aids conceal its users’ areas, which will make tracking their net exercise substantially more hard. Tor also helps make it more difficult for world wide web company vendors to detect what their buyers are accessing. This implies buyers can bypass censorship in elements of the environment the place accessibility to impartial news might be tough or if specific internet sites and providers are banned.

Guardian audience have constantly been ready to access https://www.theguardian.com using tools such as Tor Browser. These browsers route their communications about the Tor community – therefore concealing the reader’s place. But the browsers’ communications have to exit the Tor network for the final leg of the journey in purchase to get to the web page on the standard planet wide web.

The introduction of a Guardian onion provider means that the overall conversation pathway amongst a reader and the Guardian takes place inside of the Tor network, thereby keeping away from possible dangers with the “hop” among the Tor network and the entire world wide internet service. An case in point of such a threat could be that the “exit node” – the gateway among the standard world-wide-web and the Tor network – could include malicious software package or be located someplace that is topic to censorship.

Our onion services also encourages anonymity in other ways. We hope to minimise the electronic breadcrumbs that get still left by reader action and that could enable malign actors from pinpointing them. Customers of the Guardian’s onion assistance will not be able to make Guardian accounts or signal in to their current account (if they have one). And the web site does not incorporate any third-occasion advertising or sharing of info with 3rd functions.

Our onion company also disables the scripts that commonly operate in readers’ browsers. Some Tor end users already disable scripts for security reasons. By disabling them for all consumers of our onion website we hope to make certain that absolutely everyone has the similar encounter and protections. This ought to also enable with effectiveness on the Tor network, which is commonly a lot slower than standard web browsing as Tor community relies on volunteers to donate bandwidth. We hope that our modern server facet rendering tier will present a very good user working experience on our onion site. Having said that, some elaborate, interactive information may not operate as effectively.

If you now access https://www.theguardian.com employing the Tor Project’s Tor Browser, you ought to now see a message in your browser’s place bar exhibiting “.onion available”. This gives you the option to use the Guardian’s onion service as a substitute.

Because 2014, the Guardian has published a SecureDrop web site as an onion assistance, to allow for whistleblowers to get in contact securely. For a lot more about our SecureDrop onion service, please see here.

For much more details about the Tor community be sure to pay a visit to https://www.torproject.org/.