On the downside, web surfing on Tor can be slow since your traffic is traveling over the various network nodes. To anonymize your activities, the Tor browser ferries your connection through a network of volunteer-operated servers across the globe. It's why other companies, including Facebook, The New York Times, and the BBC have also launched their own Tor mirrors over the years. "As ill-willed hackers and compromising surveillance practices become growing concerns, it's important that we set up internal safeguards to help anonymize the online activity and communication of our users," Pornhub VP Corey Price said in a statement (Opens in a new window).Ī Tor mirror can also act as an alternative if a government has chosen to block the main Pornhub website. Pornhub says it created the Tor site to protect the porn-viewing habits of LGBT users, whose sexual preferences can be criminalized in certain countries. Visiting the link will require the Tor browser, which can help anonymize your web traffic and prevent internet service providers and government snoops from tracking your activities. Pornhub has created a Tor mirror site, which is accessible at. Want to keep your adult online activities private? Well, good news: Pornhub is now available on the dark web.
That exit node then contacts for you, and it sends you back the data Google responded with. So, when you access through Tor, your request bounces from Tor relay to Tor relay before it reaches an “exit node”.
When you connect to Tor, your internet activity is sent through the Tor network, anonymizing your Internet activity so it can’t be snooped on, and so that you can access websites that may be blocked in your country. It’s partially funded by the US government, and is designed to help people in countries where Internet access may be censored or monitored. Tor–short for “the onion router”–is an anonymizing computer network. RELATED: How to Browse Anonymously With Tor