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If you follow their instructions religiously, Tor is the nec plus ultra in terms of safety and privacy. For the time being at least.
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Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Tor sets the standard for safe and private browsing
If you follow their instructions religiously, Tor is the nec plus ultra in terms of safety and privacy. For the time being at least.
Pro Access hidden .onion sites
Pro Portable
Can be installed and run on a portable device such as a USB stick.
Pro Free and open source
Pro Uses the Tor network
Pro NoScript and HTTPS Everywhere installed by default
Pro Relatively fast
Pro The only browser package which includes a gateway built-in into TOR a network where you can actually browse the web completely anonymously
Privacy. It's fundamental. And this browser has enabled and keeps enabling people to lookup things they don't want their ISP/ government or surveillance marketers to see.
And what's better they won't know a thing about what you searched.
What is visible to the outside world however is the fact: you make use of TOR and probably the TORBrowser this client / citizen of ours is using TOR to obfuscate his /her traffic (=~anonymize ).
Pro Safe
Tor is just as safe as chrome or firefox, as long as you don't visit malicious websites
Pro Open source
Open source builds trust on using the program
Pro Based on Firefox
Firefox is a great browser, and tor is built on it
Pro Very light weight
Great for phones with lower RAM or performance issues.
Pro Completely free
Pro Has built-in ad blocker
Pro Has a data saver
Opera mini's data saver has two modes - regular and extreme. great for people with smaller data plans when not on wifi. Has also the ability to control the quality of downloaded images and some video optimizations.
Pro Optimized for Facebook
Cons
Con Must adapt new browsing habits
It is not recommended to do several things TOR browser that users would want to do in a normal browser, such as visiting social networks and banking.
Con Not made as your daily browser
It does not support many modern features due security and is pretty slow.
Con Extremely slow
Caused by the tor network the browser depends on.
Con You will hang on every recaptcha
Con Not secure
Firefox isn't as secure as Chrome.
Con Tor is very outdated on Firefox code
It's not that it uses the same browser engine, just look at the logos.
Con Dependant on Mozilla
Since it uses gecko.
Con Did not install
Will also not delete either.
Con Does not guarantee perfect anonymity
Unlike what most users would suspect.
Con Illegal
Accessing the hidden wiki or any other content on the dark web is illegal and people have even been imprisoned for this.
Con Dangerous
Hackers may insert something illegal onto your computer and get you arrested.
Con Using Tor on Android is still not great
Samsumg users will never use it.
Con Open Source
Anyone can hack the source code and insert malware.
Con Too many supporters
Tor has so many supporters such as brave, which makes it more popular. This is another thing how tor will be unsecure.
Con Many bugs
In extreme data saving mode, it sometimes won't load page correctly.
Con Has issues while playing video
It will crash when you are playing video.
Con Doesn't support some common modern browsers functionalities
Some web pages might look a bit broken but from personal experience it doesn't happen often enough (or at all) to be a major issue.
