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Tor Browser adds new anti-censorship feature, V2 onion warnings
2021-07-07 17:00

The Tor Project has released Tor Browser 10.5 with V2 onion URL deprecation warnings, a redesigned Tor connection experience, and an improved anti-censorship feature.

Last year, the Tor Project announced that they were deprecating the use of V2 onion URLs in favor of the newer V3 URLs to provide more robust cryptography, longer URLs to prevent brute-forcing of hidden sites, and cleaner code.

To warn Tor website admins of the upcoming changes, the Tor Browser will now display a message when visiting version 2 Onion sites that their URLs would soon be deprecated, and the site will soon be unreachable unless they upgrade to version 3.

The Tor Browser allows users to utilize 'Bridges' to bypass government or ISP censorship in various countries.

Users can then request a bridge to use in the Tor browser to bypass censorship in their country.

If you want to try out these features, simply use the Tor Browser autoupdate feature to upgrade to version 10.5 or download it directly from the Tor Browser download page.


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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tor-browser-adds-new-anti-censorship-feature-v2-onion-warnings/

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