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I thought this wasn't possible due to Apple's limitations on what browsers can do in the iOS ecosystem. This was understood to be the reason why Brave didn't h

I thought this wasn't possible due to Apple's limitations on what browsers can do in the iOS ecosystem. This was understood to be the reason why Brave didn't have a tor option in iOS. Interesting to see it working now.

juice_bus 4y ago
Is this even an official offering from The Tor Project? At the bottom it says: >Copyright © 2012-2021 Tigas Ventures, LLC. All rights reserved.
- terramex 4y ago
  I checked and it looks like Mike Tigas is a Tor Project core member, he is listed here as author of iOS Onion Browser: https://www.torproject.org/about/people/#core https://www.torproject.org/about/people/#core
- yreg 4y ago
  Onion Browser is an independent project created by Mike Tigas[0] a member of Tor Project team[1]. [0] - https://github.com/OnionBrowser https://github.com/OnionBrowser [1] - https://www.torproject.org/about/people/ https://www.torproject.org/about/people/
tomxor 4y ago
> I thought this wasn't possible due to Apple's limitations It's not possible, it doesn't have critical feature parity, resulting in some traffic simply not being routed through tor, and If it can't route all traffic for a web page the whole thing becomes kind of pointless, because now the website and your ISP can identify your access: > iOS has full control over some network traffic, which may result in this traffic (including audio or video embeds) routing via your normal connection and not over Tor. [0] I feel that all of the browser apps for iOS really aren't helping the situation. They should just remove themselves, they are just confusing to the general public, giving a false sense of diversity and freedom of choice on these crippled devices... it's caused many confusing conversations with people when it comes to iOS browser issues too. "but i'm using Firefox. No you are not. Yes I am" [0] From the article

juice_bus 4y ago

terramex 4y ago
I checked and it looks like Mike Tigas is a Tor Project core member, he is listed here as author of iOS Onion Browser: https://www.torproject.org/about/people/#core https://www.torproject.org/about/people/#core
yreg 4y ago
Onion Browser is an independent project created by Mike Tigas[0] a member of Tor Project team[1]. [0] - https://github.com/OnionBrowser https://github.com/OnionBrowser [1] - https://www.torproject.org/about/people/ https://www.torproject.org/about/people/

tomxor 4y ago

> I thought this wasn't possible due to Apple's limitations It's not possible, it doesn't have critical feature parity, resulting in some traffic simply not being routed through tor, and If it can't route all traffic for a web page the whole thing becomes kind of pointless, because now the website and your ISP can identify your access: > iOS has full control over some network traffic, which may result in this traffic (including audio or video embeds) routing via your normal connection and not over Tor. [0] I feel that all of the browser apps for iOS really aren't helping the situation. They should just remove themselves, they are just confusing to the general public, giving a false sense of diversity and freedom of choice on these crippled devices... it's caused many confusing conversations with people when it comes to iOS browser issues too. "but i'm using Firefox. No you are not. Yes I am" [0] From the article