Our readers should never need to worry that somebody else is watching what they’re doing on our site. Readers use our interactive databases to see data that reveals a lot about themselves, such as whether their doctor receives payments from drug companies. We launched this in part because we do a lot of reporting, writing, and coding about issues like media censorship, digital privacy and surveillance, and breaches of private medical information. A Tor hidden service is a special type of website that can only be visited with Tor, masking your digital trail as much as possible (Disclosure: Outside of my work at ProPublica, I’m also the developer of Onion Browser, an unofficial Tor Browser for iOS.)

onion URL is called a “Tor hidden service.” Tor is a network of internet relays (and a web browser that uses the network) that protects your privacy by hiding your browsing habits from your internet service provider, and hiding your IP address from the websites you visit. onion URL, and can redirect you to it, when you navigate to pages on This. (Recent versions of Tor Browser and Brave Browser automatically let you know about our. Once you’ve got it installed, copy and paste this URL into the running Tor browser:

To do it, you’ll need a bit of software called the Tor Browser. There’s a new way to browse our website more securely and anonymously.

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