Mozilla Doubles Donations To The Tor Project

The Tor Project has today launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds and Mozilla will double donations to a total of $ 500,000. Every day, 2 million people use the Tor network to protect their privacy and visit censored websites.

According to the Tor Project, the number of online attacks on censorship and privacy was unprecedented this year. "Countries around the world tried to restrict access to the web, to dissolve dissidents and to compromise personal privacy," said Tommy Collison of the Tor Project. Also for next year, the Tor Project expects many governments and companies censorship to make the norm and want privacy to be included in the past.

A large part of the revenue from the Tor Project comes from the US government and the organization wants to reduce it by depending more on individual donations. As there are no restrictions on crowdfunding, the money that is collected can be spent on projects which, according to the Tor Project, are the most important and can be responded quickly to changing circumstances.

Furthermore, the Tor Project praises cooperation with Mozilla. Not only will Mozilla double donations to a total of $ 500,000, both parties will work closely together in software development. For example, there is regular consultation between the engineers of Mozilla and the Tor Project. For example, Tor Browser's privacy enhancements are added to Firefox, and Mozilla engineers have taught Tor developers to program in the Rust programming language. In addition, Mozilla helps the Tor network by running several Tor servers.

New Video Shows Importance Of Tor Anonymous Internet

The developers of the Tor anonymizing network together with a development studio a short animated video created that shows the importance of the Internet Gate and anonymous. Through the Tor network Internet users can protect their IP address and example visit censored websites.

According to the video walk Internet users in the use of a normal browser is a risk that they are all leak personal information without that they see this immediately. Tor, however, would protect users' privacy and identity. "Tor protects your connection with three encryption layers and let it through three managed servers run by volunteers around the world. This allows us to communicate anonymously on the Internet."

Because Tor users look exactly the same, it is difficult for parties that monitors to identify users, which provides anonymity.The more people use Tor, the stronger the network, since it is easier to hide in a group of people who look the same, according to the video. In addition, Internet activists and bloggers help repressive regimes by also using Tor or run a Tor server.