Onion browser improves privacy on Apple devices

The new Onion Browser web browser via the TOR network, will focus more on privacy for iPhone and iPad devices.

Onion Browser, a new browser capable of improving privacy for Apple users, has gradually become a popular application in the App Store.

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Onion Browser, a web browser developed by Mike Tigas, uses The Onion Router network - the original system built by the US Naval Research Laboratory to help determine the route of data packets on the process. Browsing is accessed globally through these network servers.

Onion Browser is compatible with iPhone and iPad versions of iOS 5.0 or higher. Tigas has been the web developer for this app since it was commercialized last week, gaining the top spot in the ranking of paid gadgets on iPad and iPhone.

This browser is useful for users who want to maintain more privacy. Websites accessed via Onion browser will not see the real IP address of the user. Web links are also encrypted to prevent internet providers from saving websites that users have visited and the route must often pass through a firewall that is configured to help block specific content. However, the downside is that the route TOR route must pass through many other servers, so browsing may be slower.

Tigas has also built a new feature for Onion browser that allows to detect titles from a representative of a search engine, which can be spoofed that contains information about someone's operating system. , version numbers for plug-in utilities, system fonts and even screen sizes.

Tigas also allows users to customize policies to deal with cookie problems, such as blocking all or allowing all or just blocking third-party applications. Cookies are small data files stored within the browser, allowing data to be read by websites at different times to identify users, but cookies are also used for tracking purposes in long time.

Another feature of Onion Browser is that there is a button called 'New Identity ', which deletes cookies, someone's browser history and is stored and will also be changed to a new IP address. The price of the Onion Browser app is $ 0.99. The father of this application, Tigas, will donate 10% of the proceeds to the TOR project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.