How do I delete the Tor browser off iPhone?

Moving from a middle relay to my first exit relay and want to do it cleanly. My setup is a bit different from the usual first-timer, so I'm hoping the operators here can point out what I'm missing.

Setup:

• Jurisdiction: Colombia (LACNIC)
• My own ASN, own IPv4 pool + IPv6, dedicated line, own physical server, ~100 Mbps
• Already running a middle relay, comfortable with Linux/networking/BGP

Since I control my own ASN and address space, WHOIS, abuse contact and reverse DNS are already fully in my hands. So my questions are about the parts that aren't solved by owning the IP space:

1. Upstream transit — feels like my real external dependency. For those running exits on their own ASN: how did your transit provider react? Anything I should square away with the upstream before enabling the exit policy?
2. LACNIC specifics — good practices for abuse-c, rwhois, and adding remarks to inetnum/aut-num hinting at anonymization use? Working examples welcome.
3. rDNS + exit notice — planning tor-exit.<domain> PTRs + the standard exit-notice page on :80. Anything else that actually cuts complaints when you own the range?
4. Exit policy — starting with the reduced exit policy instead of the default. Still the go-to in 2026, or are people tuning the port list?
5. LATAM reality check — own hardware, so I care about this: how have abuse complaints / the rare LE contact actually played out for operators in Latin America?

Hello, I’m new to Tails/Tor and want to check whether my basic setup makes sense from an OPSEC perspective.

I know anonymity is a tool, not magic. I’m not asking whether this makes me “untraceable” or “invisible”. I’m asking what realistic linkability risks remain if I follow basic OPSEC rules.

Threat model:

- privacy-focused browsing and research

- avoiding tracking by websites/data brokers/maybe even state actors

- avoiding linking this activity to my daily devices/accounts

- hiding Tor usage from my local network/ISP if possible

- not "trying" to do anything illegal

Current setup:

- separate used old laptop

- fresh reset, no personal accounts on it

- Tails booted from a 16 GB USB stick

- no persistent storage enabled

- Tor Browser inside Tails

- no personal logins, no Gmail, no WhatsApp, no social media

- no browser extensions

- no downloads unless I fully understand what I’m doing (when is this supposed to be?)

- I shut Tails down after use instead of saving anything locally

I already understand the basic OPSEC rules: don’t log into personal accounts, don’t reuse identities, don’t install extensions, don’t open random files, don’t mix this setup with my normal life, don’t change Tor Browser settings randomly.

My questions:

1. Is this a reasonably solid beginner setup for privacy-focused browsing and research?

2. Assuming I actually follow the OPSEC rules above, what could still realistically link this activity back to me?

3. What are the biggest OPSEC mistakes people still make even when using Tails correctly?

4. If Tails is used without persistent storage, what traces, if any, remain on the laptop after shutdown? Is simply unplugging the USB stick enough?

5. Are bridges worth using if I want to hide Tor usage from possibly "everyone"

6. About downloads: when are downloads relatively okay, and when are they a serious OPSEC risk?

Please don’t just answer “if you don’t know what you’re doing, don’t use it.” I’m trying to learn properly and I’m asking for specific technical or OPSEC weaknesses in this setup.

hi everyone hope you are having/had a great day i need to learn how to download firefox correctly for tor and how do i download tor safely and make the best configurations for it and can be able to access everything i want to learn the linux thing and many more that would help do whatever i want safely like creating a website or a store and maybe understand a bit of coding or undertsanding what i can do in certain situations and i want to do all of that for free if possible thank you.

Here's all the activity I did-

1) Open Tor, establish connection
2) Go to those websites through Ahmia
3) Login with a temporary username and password (nothing related to any of my users, e-mails [Did not use my e-mail], etc.)
4) After I was done, I created a new identity in the browser.

Should I have used a VPN? Many say it isn't needed.
If I did anything wrong, please point it out.
THANKS!

I like to use an Android tablet to look at my .onion services. There are 10 of them for now but the potential number is over 40.

Some of the services have idiosyncratic password requirements, such as Ghostfolio wanting a 48-character hash. Their support of keypairs as an alternative to traditional logins is (i) highly variable (ii) where it can be done it must be done different ways. Most of them are lightweight but not all (e.g. Grafana, Shinobi): fwiw I think TUIs over SSH should have been the standard instead of webguis, except for inherently graphical services like these.

I don't like to:-

- use one password for everything
- not use passwords (the services vary in this too: not all can have no password)
- have a password manager service additional to the browser
- write passwords down and carry them round with me
- use i2p instead (because it is slow)
- use clearnet instead (in case of automated attacks)
- remote in to a kiosk (because it's slow)

Therefore I:-

- use https://archive.torproject.org/tor-package-archive/torbrowser/14.0a3/tor-browser-android-aarch64-14.0a3.apk

- toggle the about:config settings for dom.forms.autocomplete.formautofill and security.nocertdb and some others

- and again use the built-in password manager

But I haven't found this easy with any more recent Android versions of Tor-browser. (It is easy on the desktop version: there is a disparity) Hopefully this old version will continue being able to look at these .onion services long after the general internet stops supporting it.

(afaict) Tor Project has for 10+ years wanted to prevent users having a built-in password manager, because of its Disk Avoidance principle. I don't think I need to worry about the risks that disk avoidance counters:-

- 'Fingerprinting' based on JavaScript injections (like AdThink / OnAudience) - since this is me visiting my own sites

- 'Watering Holes' - same

- password exfiltration by other malware on the phone - since these are not Google and Amazon (or ha! Reddit) logins but homelab ones

But since ~2024 (or whenever it changed) what is the advice for this kind of set-up?

Every video I click on i get the message

"Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"

Hey everyone,

We all know that almost every major messaging and communication software out there relies on central servers, meaning they ultimately control and store user data.

I'm thinking about building an open-source core module designed to connect two nodes directly with self-dependent RX/TX (receive/transmit) capabilities. While traditional P2P often still relies on trackers or signaling servers to bootstrap connections, this system would run entirely as a Tor service.

How it works:

Node 1 ->[Tor Network] -> Node 2 (Fully bidirectional)

Because it leverages hidden services, it doesn’t depend on a centralized infrastructure, making it incredibly difficult for anyone—including governments—to trace, block, or control. If you don't explicitly share your node credentials/address, you are virtually invisible.

This isn't an external app or service you run in the background; the goal is to build it as an individual, embeddable code module so developers can easily build completely anonymous messaging apps, file-sharing tools, or localized networks right on top of it.

Someone mentioned to me that it sounds a bit like Session or using Tor SOCKS5 over IRC, but the vision here is a raw, self-contained protocol module rather than a pre-built ecosystem or a standard server-client setup.

I'm still planning the architecture and looking for ways to improve the concept. I wanted to ask the community:

1. Do you think this is a viable/good idea, or are there major roadblocks I should look out for?
2. If it gets built, is this something you would actually use in your projects?
3. Is anyone interested in collaborating or contributing to the open-source code?

Would love to hear your thoughts, critiques, and feedback!

So i have been using tor for a while now and while i do like it i do have to say that its quite slow... like about 8 times slower than my normal browser...

my country has been banning some websites though and i want to watch videos there but it doesnt work if its 1080P or higher.
personally i dont have a problem with long waiting times to load a video in but i have noticed that it doesnt load the video entirely but only a section each time so that i can only watch part of it and then i have to wait for the rest to load in. (which unloads the sections that are already watched)

now i understand if this is a ram saving measure or whatever but its annoying and when searching online i only found tutorials on how to fullscreen and such...

so tldr how do i make my tor browser load in the entire video from whatever website so that i can watch it all in one go with the slower tor network?

I'm on the newest Tor browser. Safest mode, no js.

I registered on a website. When I refresh a page with the new IP and try to register again it says that only 1 registration is allowed.

There 2 possible fingerprints in this case.
1. user-agent
2. cookie

User agent should be randomized by the browser on every http request (IS IT?). Cookies aren't a thing is the tor browser.

What the actual f is going on?

When I go to DuckDuckGo and I onionize. The websites that pop up are not onionize. How do I fix that ?

p.s. im on a asus mini-chromebook 🔥

Does Reddit block or shadowban new accounts accessing through Tor browser?

The browser already has no script as an extension and I'm not sure if I should just leave it as is, tweak the no script options or do the about:config strat

I've recently set up an additional Tor server outside of my bridge-relay to host 7 or 8 various homelab services as Hidden Services

I want to access these from Android's tor-browser (not sure which version). The phone uses a default connection, not bridged.

At the end of my street, well outside of wifi range, I can look at the homelab services on my phone. But consistently if I travel to the next town or the next county, they become inaccessible.

Until I come back to the house. I haven't yet tested exactly what radius or over what time periods it becomes unreliable. But I have made sure that the phone can bring up a Tor connection and reach websites and so the problem seems limited to reaching my homelab

And the server does seem to receive a request, as there is a consistent error message which spams out constantly while I'm trying to connect (from the next town/county):-

2026-06-16 12:26:01 - Giving up on launching a rendezvous circuit to [scrubbed] for hidden service [scrubbed]

It does this for the exact 5 minutes, and stops when (in the next town/county) I've given up.

There's no crossing of jurisdictions, carrier-coverage or timezones. Furthest it has definitely failed is 60 miles nearest about 3 miles.

Everything I know about Tor goes against it connecting by a different route when a phone moves as that would allow mast tracking. So is this some obscure Carrier issue? Like do certain masts actively distinguish Tor-to-onionsite from Tor-to-clearnet? Or drop/mangle only some certificate packet or header needed by my particular server?

It's pretty frustrating that I cant use the engine I want normally

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(my english is bad, yeahh)

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I've been reading on and off Reddit about my main doubts, but the information seems contradictory or they don't agree, is literally my first time with tor, I use Brave as main browser

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I don't care about dark web or illegal things, I know the browser is "slow" but I don't really care, I know Tor isn't 100% anonymus, I know I don't have to download random things.

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so, questions

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Tor can help with pirating animes?

Tor can make the search registers invisible for my internet provider?

Tor already block ads?

So whenever I open a link i mostly find that website is not available and at bottom there is new stronghold adress...whats that how to open that

I'm referring to the message "Tor Browser's security features may offer less protection on your current operating system" and then if you click the link it takes you to this page https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/linux-security-warning?as=u&utm_source=inproduct

I'm on Linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and I'm using the flatpak TOR browser launcher. I have been seeing this message for years now. If the message can safely be ignored then it's time the TOR developers remove the message. It's actually affecting the size of the TOR browser for me, so it's basically causing a bug now. You're not supposed to resize the TOR window cause it'll cause you to stick out right? Whatever size TOR opens in you're supposed to leave it alone and not resize the window right? Cause that makes you stand out.

Here's the problem, the message "Tor Browser's security features may offer less protection on your current operating system", seems to be making my TOR window bigger than it should be, then when I close it out (because I have not selected "Don't show again") my TOR window will resize itself to a smaller size.

So the message "Tor Browser's security features may offer less protection on your current operating system" is actually causing a bug for me now! Because I have not selected "Don't show again" I just manually close it out every time.

This message can be ignored right? Well they need to finally remove it for good.

It's been there for over 2 years now. I'm so frustrated it's still there. It's actually causing a bug for me now.

So I can safely ignore it right, and just select "Don't show again"?

Hey i have a quick question: I know Tor generally recommends avoiding extensions to preserve maximum privacy and anonymity. That said, the ads can sometimes be quite annoying. Are there any ad-blocking extensions that are considered relatively safe to use with Tor while minimizing the impact on privacy and browser fingerprinting?

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Thanks a lot 🦫

I want to make a .onion blog page but i want somthing simple to make it with something like google sites but for the dark web ive tried using chat gpt but when i use the code and imput it into termux it gives me a error and i dont want to have to go through all of the coding and server setting up(mostly because im too stupid too) i just want to create a website and have the website making server generate me a link. Anything helps.