It erases your browsing history automatically with every session, and encrypts all your traffic. It also lets you access the dark web - the hidden and un-indexed websites on the internet. Because of its ability to let you access the world wide web freely, some countries block Tor entirely.
Originally, the Tor network was developed by the U.S. Navy to enable anonymous online communication for military organizations. In 2006, the military dropped the project, which has since been handled by a non-profit. These days, the Tor Project mainly focuses its attention on its browser and the development of a few other privacy tools, which we’ll touch on later. Tor aims to improve your online privacy and, up to a point, your security. The browser makes use of Tor’s vast and worldwide server network to hide your IP and secure your connection. When using Tor browser, your data goes through different Tor servers (or “nodes”). The traffic is heavily encrypted - and then slowly decoded - one layer at a time at the different nodes. This means that, whoever is trying to identify you based on your online traffic, will just stumble on the last server your data traffic passed through (a.k.a.
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