short notes about this list, the tor network and not getting phished. no newsletter, no comments, no rss bloat - it updates when it updates.
Moat, email requests, the BridgeDB site, and trusted community sharing still deliver working bridges to censored users. We explain how each channel operates and what opsec it demands.
How countries filter Tor with IP blacklists, deep packet inspection and bridge probing - and what the Russia 2021 block and Iran's recurring crackdowns reveal about what works.
Single-hop onion mode trades server anonymity for speed. We break down what the flag changes, why operators enable it, and what visitors quietly give up.
Onion traffic never touches an exit relay, yet exits still collect the blame for everything on the network. We untangle what exit policies do, and the myths that refuse to die.
Half of Tor's relays now run dual-stack. We look at what growing IPv6 support means for users, why IPv4 scarcity is reshaping the relay fleet, and what comes next.
A practical walkthrough of running your own onion site: the torrc directives that matter, how v3 keys work, and the operational mistakes that have unmasked operators.
Onion uptime badges are easy to fake and hard to earn. We break down probe frequency, retry discipline, timeout choices, and why single-check monitors mislead.
congestion control, onion service latency work and the arti rewrite: a status check on the tor network's performance roadmap, and what still needs to land.
why Google ignores .onion entirely, what onion search engines can and cannot see, and how discovery really works inside the tor network.
where tor browser stands after the version 14 rebase: faster security updates, android parity, and what the next releases are lining up.
the big list just got structure: dedicated category pages with descriptions, per-category status summaries and URLs you can actually share.
a single failed probe no longer turns a badge red: the checker now retries on fresh circuits before believing an outage.