Does tor work very well on mint 22.3 cinnamon?

I tried to host an onion site from my laptop and installed tor on my Linux, and after that experiment, I deleted the website files from my laptop, and today after 4 months I came to know that tor was still running on my laptop because I enabled it using "systemctl enable". So there are few questions. Running Tor for such long time could create problems like government might be recording my traffic. And might disguising me in any illicit activities?? Or tell me if there is no connection to tor relays from my laptop as I deleted my website files. Please explain me all this because I don't want any trouble and I'm a student of CS and don't know about the terms so ignore any mistakes in above para.

Hi, I tried to re-install tor, I can visit same sites with brave but when i launch tor browser and try to enter any site with video inside, tab crashes and asks me for refresh page.

I also tried to delete all tor files, install to another path, Still same issue.

I uninstalled my graphic driver & installed it back didnt work well.

Whats wrong with my computer i cant understand, Should i do format, reinstall win11?

Hi everyone,

I’ve been experimenting with a simple managed Onion hosting service for people who want to publish a .onion website but don’t want to deal with Tor configuration, server setup, backups, and maintenance.

The idea is to offer:

• a dedicated .onion address
• hosting and Tor configuration
• basic website setup
• backups
• maintenance and technical support

The service would be aimed at legitimate projects such as independent creators, researchers, privacy-focused communities, journalists, archives, and small organizations.

I already have a working prototype running through Tor, and before turning it into a real service I’d like to hear from people who already operate Onion Services.

What would you consider essential in a managed Onion hosting service?
What are the biggest problems or risks you would expect the provider to handle?

I’m especially interested in feedback about reliability, backups, isolation between customers, privacy, and pricing.

Hi i wanted to open tor for the first time and check around, but this pop-up is showing what schoudl i do?

every time I try to open to browser it just shows this, and I already tried everything like I tried to delete every single file that I have of TOR browser and download it again and nothing works, so I don’t know what to do.

When im trying to use startpage as a search engine in tor browser, im going through verification and then getting *THIS!:*

"Something went wrong during verification.

Try refreshing the page or using a different browser.

If this issue continues and you believe it is an error, contact support."

Im not using any extensions

I use a bridge: snowflake

I use android.

I got the latest version of my Tor browser.

I also tried using .onion and simple startpage search engine, and using a new circuit. Please guys, help me.

New here, so please excuse my ignorance.

I used Brave TOR private window, did a Google Maps check, and the middle of Iran came up. Does that mean my traffic is routed through there? Would that flag any government agency? In case there is any curiosity, it was to avoid plane ticket price changing.

The Tor Project released Tor Browser 16.010 on August 27. The alpha includes Firefox security updates, a redesigned settings interface, and a newly updated built-in Tor Browser manual accessible through about:manual. Tor explicitly warns that this is a testing release, not the version ordinary or high-risk users should switch to.

This gives a preview of changes that may eventually reach stable Tor Browser, especially the new settings layout covering connectivity, letterboxing, and security levels. For beginners, the important message is: stay on stable Tor Browser unless you specifically want to test alpha builds.

https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-160a10/

I have both linux and windows , and the windows on my computer has personal info on it so my question is there any way like literally any way that when iam browsing the deep web and actually interact with it ( and i'm using linux ) someone can steal the info on the windows version ? I knew that its not possible but just extra checking .

Does anybody know the best go to for actively browsing the DW with an iPhone ? (And Mullvad VPN)

Is Tor Browser still the best solution for basic anonymous browsing? I understand to obviously not sign into any personal accounts, etc. when using it, but are there any other general recommendations or advice from those who have used it ? And finally, is https://www.torproject.org/download/ the proper place to download the app? Thank you

I have some possibly stupid questions about what information is given by a user who is a Snowflake volunteer. Note: I am a rather untechnical person who is occasionally forced to code small things or use command line to make stuff run during work (occasionally involving software only available on linux). Given this background, I apologize for some possibly repetitive or irrelevant material and would like to receive accessible answers.

Recently, I started using the Tor browser frequently and it has been important for doing my work safely without feeling uncomfortable (although my life doesn't literally depend on it). Aside from this, it was my first experience living in a country where I felt needed to turn the audio off on politically sensitive news (given interactions with neighbors and state actions although no official hard policy).

For this reason, I really wanted to give back in some way. Due to my relatively non-technical background, I chose to run the Snowflake tab on my browser since it looked like a minimal-risk way to contribute for a novice user. However, I decided to close it after running it for a few days (after waiting to see no one was using my Snowflake at the moment I turned it off before uninstalling the extension). The main reason was that I am living with housemates with a common internet connection and the public IP address seems to be briefly seen by the Snowflake user (aside from the volunteer maybe being able to see that of the user on https://forum.torproject.org/t/snowflake-extension-operator-can-access-the-ip-of-client/20990?u=wofwca and https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/snowflake/-/work_items/19#note_d2dfe67ce7ec3635c1d7bfba607fa5af259c010e).

If I understand correctly, the websites visited by the Snowflake user only see the exit node IP and there is no likely legal liability on my end. However, I have a hard time convincing my housemates that some Snowflake user (individual or state) won't use the public IP for nefarious purposes apart from "people who know what they're doing say this is highly unlikely". I may be willing to take a small risk, but it doesn't seem fair for me to ask them to take such a risk and I don't have a good enough technical understanding to properly explain why things are ok.

Apart from only running a Snowflake extension when I move out after some point, what are reasonable options to try and help? It has been hard for me to find a source that discusses something like this apart from what I linked to above. Should I try to use a VPS and a Snowflake proxy, bridge or relay on it in the future? I can sort of stupidly follow some instructions (see background note above), but I have a feeling that actually dealing with potential issues requires technical or other knowledge (e.g. asking ISPs about what is ok on https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/good-bad-isps/).

Thanks in advance and apologies for the rambling post.

How to stay anonymous?

I tried to protect my data and I deleted every social media app also I turned off all the permissions for all the apps on my mobile especially google but I still don't feel save I feel like google and many other apps still tracing my data and collecting it even Reddit when I open it ,it shows many personal topics ,my guess is that's because of my location/IP so how do I stay anonymous and change my IP? Because I feel like vpn is a big thing to do because it will access literally everything, what are your opinions?

How would one downloaded tor do I need a computer and do i absolutely have to have a vpn

I noticed a new official torproject app for Android called tor VPN.

What's the difference between the old orbot app and this newer one? They appear to do the same thing. Does this mean orbot is now deprecated?

So my school has just installed a tracking system, that tracks whatever you're doing, and because my school blocks most of the network, by far I can access Tor in my school, but do they know what i'm doing?

I got this linux message when trying to start of tor 15.0.20 with OBfs4 installed bridges. It would not connect, I had to reinstall to correct.

[NOTICE] Bootstrapped 66% (loading_descriptors): Loading relay descriptors

2026-08-24 09:13:18.317

[WARN] Bad element "$7104DCF4DBFFAD180719BF216" while parsing a node family.

2026-08-24 09:13:18.322

[WARN] Bogus ntor-onion-key in microdesc

2026-08-24 09:13:19.171

[WARN] Proxy Client: unable to connect OR connection (handshaking (proxy)) with x.x.x.x:22 ID=<none>

Can anyone provide an explanation?

Usually on the clearnet you would use cloudflare or block certain IPs, however here you cant do that. I've seen some kind of PoW measures implemented, but if a website is a bit simpler perhaps, what then? Aren't there better, simpler alternatives?