The Guardian web site is now out there to Tor customers as an “onion service”, on the tackle:
https://www.guardian2zotagl6tmjucg3lrhxdk4dw3lhbqnkvvkywawy3oqfoprid.onion
The Tor community helps conceal its customers’ areas, which makes monitoring their web exercise way more tough. Tor additionally makes it tougher for web service suppliers to determine what their customers are accessing. This implies customers can bypass censorship in components of the world the place entry to unbiased information may be tough or if sure web sites and providers are banned.
Guardian readers have at all times been capable of entry https://www.theguardian.com utilizing instruments equivalent to Tor Browser. These browsers route their communications over the Tor community – thereby concealing the reader’s location. However the browsers’ communications need to exit the Tor community for the ultimate leg of the journey with a view to get to the positioning on the conventional world extensive net.
The introduction of a Guardian onion service signifies that the whole communication pathway between a reader and the Guardian takes place inside the Tor community, thereby avoiding potential dangers with the “hop” between the Tor community and the world extensive net service. An instance of such a threat may very well be that the “exit node” – the gateway between the conventional net and the Tor community – might include malicious software program or be positioned someplace that's topic to censorship.
Our onion service additionally promotes anonymity in different methods. We hope to minimise the digital breadcrumbs that get left by reader exercise and that would assist malign actors from figuring out them. Customers of the Guardian’s onion service will be unable to create Guardian accounts or check in to their present account (if they've one). And the positioning doesn't embrace any third-party promoting or sharing of knowledge with third events.
Our onion service additionally disables the scripts that usually run in readers’ browsers. Some Tor customers already disable scripts for safety causes. By disabling them for all customers of our onion website we hope to make sure that everybody has the identical expertise and protections. This must also assist with efficiency on the Tor community, which is normally a lot slower than typical net shopping as Tor community depends on volunteers to donate bandwidth. We hope that our fashionable server aspect rendering tier will present a great consumer expertise on our onion website. Nevertheless, some advanced, interactive content material could not work as effectively.
In case you already entry https://www.theguardian.com utilizing the Tor Venture’s Tor Browser, it's best to now see a message in your browser’s location bar displaying “.onion out there”. This provides you the choice to make use of the Guardian’s onion service as an alternative.
Since 2014, the Guardian has revealed a SecureDrop website as an onion service, to permit whistleblowers to get in contact securely. For extra about our SecureDrop onion service, please see right here.
For extra details about the Tor community please go to https://www.torproject.org/.
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