Onion-location header

Onion-Location is a new HTTP header that web sites can use to advertise their onion counterpart. If the web site that you're visiting has an onion site available, a purple suggestion pill will prompt at the URL bar saying ". onion available".

1. What is onion address format?
2. What is invalid onion site address?
3. Does Tor hide your location?
4. What is invalid onion site address 0xf6?
5. What is a onion headline?
6. Do onion sites need https?
7. Is onion better than VPN?
8. What is onion domain name?
9. Can police track Tor?
10. Can you get caught on Tor?
11. Can you be tracked with a VPN and Tor together?
12. How do onion addresses work?
13. What does onion mean in VPN?
14. What is .onion domain used for?
15. What is onion routing used for?
16. Is onion over VPN better than VPN?
17. Is onion better than VPN?
18. Does the CIA have an onion site?

What is onion address format?

An onion address is a string of 56 letters and numbers, followed by ". onion". When accessing a website that uses an onion service, Tor Browser will show in the URL bar an icon of an onion displaying the state of your connection: secure and using an onion service.

What is invalid onion site address?

That error message means that the site you are trying to reach is using v2 routing, which is no longer supported.

Does Tor hide your location?

Tor Browser is anonymous in terms of hiding your location and browsing activity — but there are limits. Although they can't see your browsing activity or Tor encrypted data, your ISP can still see that you're using Tor.

What is invalid onion site address 0xf6?

details: 0xf6 — the provided . onion address is invalid. this error is returned due to one of the following reasons: the address checksum doesn't match, the ed25519 public key is invalid, or the encoding is invalid.

What is a onion headline?

A phrase that describes when you have to check the source of an absurd headline to see if it's real or not (from "The Onion"). The Onion is a satirical newspaper that creates crazy and hilarious stories to make fun of current events.

Do onion sites need https?

Related to the previous point, some protocols, frameworks, and infrastructures use SSL as a technical requirement; they won't work if they don't see an "https://" link. In that case, your Onion Service will need to use an HTTPS certificate in order to function.

Is onion better than VPN?

Onion over VPN is safer than using Tor alone as it helps to protect against traffic correlation attacks and malware. Users are still at risk from malicious exit nodes and UDP data leaks. Tor over VPN is extremely slow and can impact your anonymity. Deciding if Onion over VPN is worth it is therefore circumstantial.

What is onion domain name?

.onion is a special-use top level domain name designating an anonymous onion service, which was formerly known as a "hidden service", reachable via the Tor network.

Can police track Tor?

There is no way to track live, encrypted VPN traffic.

Using the Tor browser could be suspicious to your ISP and, therefore, to the police. However, you're not going to get in trouble just because it looks a bit suspicious.

Can you get caught on Tor?

There is nothing the Tor developers can do to trace Tor users. The same protections that keep bad people from breaking Tor's anonymity also prevent us from figuring out what's going on.

Can you be tracked with a VPN and Tor together?

Using a VPN is, in itself, a pretty secure method to stay anonymous on the web. So is using the Tor network, which also directs your connection through several random nodes to make it impossible to trace the connection back to you.

How do onion addresses work?

onion" addresses are URLs that are not listed in the public DNS record like those on the surface web. They are cryptographic hashes based on public keys. Whenever you want to connect to an onion service, the Tor network takes the cryptographic hash, decrypts it using the public key, and connects to the service.

What does onion mean in VPN?

Onion over VPN, also called Tor over VPN, is when you connect to a VPN and then open Tor browser. This approach protects your digital identity and data better than using either alone. You get the VPN's security and privacy with Tor's anonymity.

What is .onion domain used for?

A . onion domain is the address of a website that can only be accessed through the Tor anonymity browser. Regular browsers won't be able to navigate the relay of proxy servers that will take users to your website.

What is onion routing used for?

Onion routing is a technique for anonymous communication over a computer network. In an onion network, messages are encapsulated in layers of encryption, analogous to the layers of an onion.

Is onion over VPN better than VPN?

No. While both tools provide privacy, the Onion network uses different technology from a VPN. The Onion network is more focused on providing you with ultimate privacy. Meanwhile, a VPN focuses on both your security and privacy.

Is onion better than VPN?

Onion over VPN is safer than using Tor alone as it helps to protect against traffic correlation attacks and malware. Users are still at risk from malicious exit nodes and UDP data leaks. Tor over VPN is extremely slow and can impact your anonymity. Deciding if Onion over VPN is worth it is therefore circumstantial.

Does the CIA have an onion site?

The CIA's . onion site will provide all of the same information, contacts and services the spy agency's normal website does. It's aimed at people who want to anonymously share information with the CIA, but are wary of being tracked.