{"id":274793,"date":"2018-09-10T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T06:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=274793"},"modified":"2018-09-10T08:31:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T06:31:50","slug":"tor-mobile-browser-launched-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/274793-tor-mobile-browser-launched-for-android.html","title":{"rendered":"Tor mobile browser launched for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tor Project has released an experimental version of a Tor mobile browser on the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=org.torproject.torbrowser_alpha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Google Play Store<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The application is still in alpha and users should expect to encounter a number of bugs when using the browser.<\/p>\n<p>While other Tor browsers such as <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=info.guardianproject.orfox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Orfox<\/strong><\/a> exist for Android, this is the first official mobile browser released by the Tor Project.<\/p>\n<p>The Tor Browser for Android requires the installation of a proxy application called Orbot, which connects the browser to the Tor network.<\/p>\n<p>Developers aim to remove the reliance on Orbot for the upcoming stable Android release of the Tor Browser.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tor Browser for Android is the only official mobile browser supported by the Tor Project, developers of the world\u2019s strongest tool for privacy and freedom online,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/274065-the-most-popular-browsers-and-operating-systems-for-pcs-and-smartphones-2.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The most popular browsers and operating systems for PCs and smartphones<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tor Project has released an experimental version of a Tor mobile browser on the Google Play Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":274799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,43,53727,36043,31006],"class_list":["post-274793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-mobile","tag-orbot","tag-tor-browser","tag-tor-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274809,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274793\/revisions\/274809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}