Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. 🧅 A $75 donation gets you our brand new Tor onion logo t-shirt. https://donate.torproject.org

Tor: powered by this anonymous donor. https://donate.torproject.org

We just launched our annual fundraising campaign. This year, we're celebrating our community's commitment. Thanks to your support we can power tools trusted by millions and stand strong against Big Tech. Say yes to privacy by making a donation today!

🧅 https://blog.torproject.org/tor-is-powered-by-you

RE: https://pan.rent/@tommi/117424518467912038

If you're in Rotterdam tomorrow, stop by and get your Onion Services questions answered! :) 🧅

In Amsterdam next week: Join @torproject and Internet Archive Europe for a conversation about threats to the open internet and how Onion Services can help keep the web open.

"Avoiding the Internet Achilles' heel: Locking the web open with Onion Services"

📅 October 8, 5:30 - 7:30 PM
📍 Oudeschans 16, 1011 KZ Amsterdam

Evening Program:
* Presentation
* Talk with slides
* Q&A
* Informal happy hour & conversation

To join the event, please register below.

https://luma.com/s64zolbc
#privacy #tor

Noticed a warning when installing Tor Browser for Windows? ⚠️ Our installer’s signing certificate expired. While we renew it, our website will serve version
15.0.20 for Windows users. After installation and on first run, the browser will download the latest version and install it on next launch. This avoids the expired certificate warning. Read about the new release and this temporary change: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-15024/

RE: https://mastodon.neat.computer/@jonah/117247830782954008

Want to support the onionverse today? Jonah is doubling every donation you make towards the Tor Project + three relay operator associations, @emeraldonion, @triplebit, and @unredacted. Make a donation at the link in his original post. Thank you @jonah!

A year of Tor VPN Beta real-world use has taught us a lot and shaped what’s next. Explore our per-app circuit isolation, a surprising UX lesson about bypassing blocks, and the mobile foundation we’re building: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-vpn-beta/

Tor VPN Beta is a multi-year collaboration. Thank you to @guardianproject for guidance and critical mobile libraries, and LEAP Encryption Access Project for quality work. Neither could be missing from this effort.

We're always looking for more great people to join our team. Check out two new opportunities: https://torproject.org/about/jobs/

🎨 UX Lead: guide our design team and shape more intuitive, accessible, and human-centered products. Apply by September 4.

🧭 Board of Directors: help provide strategic direction and governance for Tor’s mission. Apply by September 21.

The results are in: Our first crowdfunding round has raised more than $200k for projects working across privacy, censorship circumvention, and secure communications: https://blog.torproject.org/funding-internet-freedom-together/

A big thank you to our matchfunders, Octant, @cakewallet, @ethereumfoundation, Logos, @xeovo and @zcash Community Grants for helping turn individual contributions into ecosystem-wide support. Your participation made it possible for small donations to carry more weight.

Suggested donation for all swag at the Tor booth is reduced today, the last day of @defcon. Grab the t-shirts, badges, stickers, and plushies for less... we might even be taking offers. #Defcon34

RE: https://mastodon.social/@torproject/117032847551189295

The @torproject wrote about our new Snowflake Volunteer app 🙌

This took a coalition. InterSecLab built the secure research infrastructure that turned a 600GB leak into a searchable dataset for every partner, then ran the forensic analysis of how the system works.

Thank you to #IJ4EU and our partners: @amnesty, Justice for Myanmar, @papertrailmedia, @globeandmail, the @torproject, @derStandard and @FTM_nl.

Read The Internet Coup: https://interseclab.org/research/the-internet-coup

The shortlisted for IJ4EU Impact Awards 2026
https://investigativejournalismforeu.net/ten-investigations-shortlisted-for-ij4eu-impact-awards-2026/

How about upgrading your key infrastructure at #DEFCON34? 🔑

The Tor plushie has been our most popular booth item by far, so we expanded the line: meet the brand-new plushie keychain, making its debut at @defcon.

🚨 New app alert! Android app called Snowflake Volunteer for those willing to help people reach the Tor network and circumvent censorship from their mobile devices. It was built open-source by @bloco , an Android app studio from Portugal. ❄️👉https://blog.torproject.org/snowflake-volunteer-standalone-app-to-help-people-bypass-censorship/

Also, be sure to get this year's custom T-shirt design for #defcon34. Stop by our booth this week before it's too late! See you @defcon

Don't gamble with your privacy. Use these poker chips instead! Exclusively available at our @defcon booth in Vegas. #defcon34

Only 2 weeks until DEF CON (@defcon) We're back with a booth where you can get some brand new custom Tor merch alongside old favorites. Stop by and stock up! #defcon34

🔔 Tor Browser 16.0a9 Alpha is here! https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-160a9/
If you enjoy testing new builds and helping us catch bugs before stable, we'd love your help: https://community.torproject.org/user-research/become-tester/ ⚠️ Alpha is for testing only.

A couple more highlights:
📱 We shrank the Android APK by ~3 MB with a new compression approach to stay under Google Play's size limits.
📉 Tor Browser Android is also down to just one remaining telemetry library (still disabled by default), with plans to remove even that in the future.

Videos like these are why I still have a paid @protonprivacy account. And if you think I'm worried that they'll turn my data over if subpoenaed, I would just use @torproject for sensitive browsing and @signalapp for 70% of my communication (the other 30% are either my wife or my biological family who refuses to use Signal, or my job).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv2Eb_kJous