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You're right that it was created by the government, but the you're missing something important about the nature of the onion protocol. 1. Edward Snowden recommends Tor for getting away from nationstate IP tracking / spying. He's the guy who blew the whistle on the NSA. 2. Tor bounces you across at least 3 randomly selected nodes around the world, the connection is different every single time. The only way the US government could track you start to finish was if they accidentally controlled all the nodes and then got lucky to sort you out from the 10,000 other users swimming through the same node, they would have to care a whole lot to take the trouble to attempt to walk it all back and figure it out for you and simulataneously control all the nodes you connected to. The fact of the matter is the US doesn't own all the nodes, it doesn't own even 1/50th of the nodes. And new nodes pop up all the time from private users and universities and nerds interested in it.

Whatsapp uses a bastardized version of "Tor". I put tor in quotes for them because they only do 1 bounce, and its a bounce that they control, so its bullshit.

I like browsers that not only lack spyware, but also have the private browsing option built in with tor functionality. It's an important piece of the puzzle and the power to browse under throwaway IP's can't be dismissed, even the ISP can't keep tabs on that, all they know on their side is that you hit a tor node and can't continue the path from there out. It's real, and to this day it's one of the best tools you can have without paying for a VPN. A VPN is nothing different than a 1 bounce Tor, it's less secure and you'll never know if the VPN was compromised. Tor isn't owned by any single face who can be extorted, it's certainly not owned by the US government, it's like creating stealth bombers, just because you invented the first stealth bomber doesn't mean you control and see the other 500,000 stealth planes cruising the sky under the radar right now. Browsing with a normal browser is like getting on commercial airplanes, every keystroke and visit is documented and tracked. It's a lot different than climbing into a private stealth craft which is invisible on the radar.

(((chrom)))ium come on people how fucking hard is it not to use the shitass fingerprint engine developed by Goolag?

haha no. built from the ground up to fingerprint users. phones home on launch. stfu