{"id":4007,"date":"2015-10-21T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T22:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=4007"},"modified":"2015-10-21T08:35:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T22:35:10","slug":"an-update-on-using-tor-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/21\/an-update-on-using-tor-on-android\/","title":{"rendered":"An update on using Tor on Android"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 2012 I wrote a blog post on using Tor on Android<\/a> which has proved quite popular over the years.<\/p>\n

These days, there is the OrFox browser, which is from The Tor Project and is likely the current best way to browse the web through Tor on your Android device.<\/p>\n

If you’re still using the custom setup Firefox, I’d recommend giving OrFox a try – it’s been working quite well for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in 2012 I wrote a blog post on using Tor on Android which has proved quite popular over the years. These days, there is the OrFox browser, which is from The Tor Project and is likely the current best … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[448,473,211,477],"class_list":["post-4007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-android","tag-browser","tag-privacy","tag-tor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-12D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3044,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/tor-firefox-twitter-not-rooted-android-awesome\/","url_meta":{"origin":4007,"position":0},"title":"Tor + Firefox + Twitter + (not rooted) Android = awesome","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2012-06-28","format":false,"excerpt":"Update: As of October 2015, you should likely install the OrFox browser which is from The Tor Project and is a port of the Tor Browser to Android. 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