A year of Tor VPN Beta real-world use has taught us a lot and shaped what’s…

The Tor Project@mastodon.social · 2026-09-10 02:03

A year of Tor VPN Beta real-world use has taught us a lot and shaped what’s next. Explore our per-app circuit isolation, a surprising UX lesson about bypassing blocks, and the mobile foundation we’re building: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-vpn-beta/

Tor VPN Beta is a multi-year collaboration. Thank you to @guardianproject for guidance and critical mobile libraries, and LEAP Encryption Access Project for quality work. Neither could be missing from this effort.

Tor VPN Beta: What we've learned building our own VPN for Android from scratch | Tor Project

Last fall, we soft-launched Tor VPN Beta as a way to extend Tor's privacy protections beyond the browser to an entire Android device. Since then, we've been able to learn from how people are actually using it in real-world scenarios. This post walks through what makes our per-app circuit isolation different from commercial VPNs, the surprising UX lesson when trying to bypass blocks, and the mobile foundation we're building for what's next.

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Sir David Nielsen@mastodon.social 2026-09-10 02:12

@torproject @guardianproject hopefully they will support iPadOS soon.

Lorien Brownie@mastodon.social 2026-09-10 08:51

@torproject @guardianproject Small request, could you add India to the Exits in the VPN Beta app?