If you've read our previous coverage on the Tor network and the Tor Browser, you'll know they're the best choices if you want to maximize your privacy and anonymity on the internet. Now, the Tor project has teamed up with the Bloco Android app studio to release another app focused on privacy and anonymity: Snowflake Volunteer.This isn't only bout keeping your own browsing safe and secure—if you install it on your Android phone, you're helping other people circumvent censorship restrictions in their current location, donating part of your connection to the web so that they can get online at all.
Enabling Snowflake Volunteer on Android.
The Tor Browser is so effective at hiding the identity and online activities of users that certain governments would rather their citizens didn't make use of it. That takes away one of the best privacy browsers in the business for the people of those countries, and anyone who happens to be visiting them. Censoring the Tor Browser is usually done by refusing access to the relay nodes that it routes traffic around—the stops on the way to and from the internet that do the job of concealing locations and other identifiable information. However, the relay directory is public, which means it can be blocked.
