Tor has bad latency & availability characteristics for everyday use. You probably shouldn't try to push your 60+ year old mother into using it unless she's e.g.

Tor has bad latency & availability characteristics for everyday use. You probably shouldn't try to push your 60+ year old mother into using it unless she's e.g. a journalist or political activist. When Tor is actually appropriate, the drop-and-go version is the Tor Browser Bundle, which uses a customized Firefox distribution. https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en Note that all this does is proxy your requests, it won't prevent you from deanonymizing yourself through characteristic requests, traffic patterns, or whatever. That's often where people screw up, since it involves a running battle where losing a few bits of entropy here and there can and will expose you. But to explain it: A group of people don't want others to be able to snoop on what websites they want to view. So they agree to lump all their requests together, and then they don't keep any records about who ordered what once it has been delivered. If someone's snooping, all they can tell is that someone in the group requested it - they can't point a finger at any specific person.