Although I personally think it's a bit of a discovery of hot water, we recently found out how difficult it is to maintain privacy on the internet from the datagate scandals. Whatever you do on the internet, any site you visit, any research and any comment you write, everything is recorded and, if desired, can also be traced. In the end it doesn't matter if someone knows that I like blue more than red and that I prefer Android to iPhone or Windows to Mac, so I don't feel threatened, but if I had to do more private things, then I could stop for a moment in doing anything. The safest way to surf without being tracked, almost completely anonymously, is by using TOR, a program that guarantees online privacy.
We have seen how to use it on a computer with the Tor Browser, and now let's see how to use TOR on an Android smartphone or tablet, to surf anonymously while protecting privacy .
UPDATE: From 2019 you can download the official Tor application for Android . The browser connects to TOR's private network, making the connection anonymous automatically, just by pressing a button. The new TOR app no longer requires, as in the Alpha version, that the Orbot app is also present.
Tor on Android then camouflages the connection data and has a button, in the Android notification bar, which allows you to change identity in a touch. As a search engine use DuckDuckGo, which does not track searches made on the internet. To exit, press the button of the three apps and then on Exit .
The application to use, free, is called Orbot, and allows you to hide our identity on the internet from Android .
TOR on Android changes the IP address that is detected externally through the use of a proxy server and protects the connection making it impossible to trace. This system works with searches, with social network accounts and many other things are done online from the mobile. To use Orbot the smarthpone does not need to have Android unlocked with Root even if the Root gives some advantages for this operation. Once the application is installed, you can use the wizard to find the apps that work with Orbot. If the cell phone is Rooted, Orbot will work independently with all the apps on the phone. The connection is also protected and anonymized on the Google Chrome browser and on the Google search widget. In a smartphone without root, there is a need to use apps in which the proxy can be configured. To start Orbot you just have to hold down the central button on the app.
Orbot starts automatically when the smartphone is booted, therefore, if you do not want it to always be active, you must disable this option in the application menu. Always on the main menu you can take a test on the effective protection of Orbot. If you are not using OrWeb as a browser, cancel its installation and then check using Firefox, after installing the add on Proxy Mobile. For other applications, it may be necessary to restart the tablet or mobile phone in order for their internet connection to pass through the proxy.
Once everything is configured, while using the Android mobile phone on the internet, the IP address will change periodically and the connection will pass through the nodes of the TOR network making its origin and identity of the device almost untraceable.
Orbot can be downloaded from the Google Play Store .
In another article, the best VPN apps for browsing sites blocked by Android, iPhone and iPad .
