
NoScript plug-in and other privacy features may be confusing to novice users. Finding localized websites can be difficult. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication. How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac. How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files. How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill. How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad. How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages. Onion Browser has been featured in The New York Times, Salon, TechCrunch, Boing Boing, Gizmodo, and The Guardian and the app is recommended by many in the Tor community. Unfortunately, many of these forks are unmaintained or introduce scary security issues - like leaking unsecured traffic by loading ads before Tor connects. Lots of copies of Onion Browser exist - because it's open source, it's hard to stop that from happening. And there are some other ways to make one-off donations (including cryptocurrency), that you can find here: Donation Options You can donate via the in-app "tip jar", which uses in-app purchases. There are also non-Patreon methods of supporting Onion Browser. Feel free to click "Become a Patron" and enter any amount. Otherwise, I turn to the support of you, the public.Įven a $1/month pledge would help.
It's sometimes hard to find time to work on a free app, while trying to maintain a full-time job to make ends meet, you know? There are occasional grants from organizations that support mobile privacy / censorship-resistance apps a lot of that goes to hiring other developers and designers to help out on the project. The app used to cost $1, but is now a free App Store download - because of this, any financial support is appreciated. It integrates support for the Tor anonymity network, obfs4proxy to help bypass Tor-blocking censorship, and it also provides extra features to help you browse the internet safely and privately. Onion Browser is a free, open-source iOS web browser that I originally developed. I also work on other open-source software for the good of the world - like Tabula, tool that helps extract data tables from PDF files.īut most of you are probably here on my Patreon because of my work on Onion Browser and as a volunteer core contributor to the Tor Project. Hi! I'm Mike Tigas, and I work on a ton of security / anticensorship / investigative journalism ish stuff. By day, I'm an investigative journalist and news applications developer at ProPublica.