Or, if you're already running Tor Browser, you can copy and paste this string in a new tab: about:preferences#privacy and change this setting. onion sites when known.' and check the option 'Always'.

To prioritize an onion site version of a website, you can enable automatic Onion-Location redirects.Ĭlick on hamburger menu (≡), go to Preferences (or Options on Windows), click on Privacy & Security, and in the Onion Services section look for the entry 'Prioritize. When you click on '.onion available', the website will be reloaded and redirected to its onion counterpart. If the website that you are visiting has an onion site available, a purple suggestion pill will prompt at the URL bar in Tor Browser displaying '.onion available'.

Onion-Location is a non-standard HTTP header that websites can use to advertise their onion counterpart. You can learn more about the onion site that you are visiting by looking at the Circuit Display.Īnother way to learn about an onion site is if the website administrator has implemented a feature called Onion-Location. When accessing a website that uses an onion service, Tor Browser will show in the URL bar an icon of an onion displaying the state of your connection: secure and using an onion service. An onion address is a string of 56 letters and numbers, followed by '.onion'. Just like any other website, you will need to know the address of an onion service in order to connect to it. onion URL also helps Tor ensure that it is connecting to the right location and that the connection is not being tampered with. The address of an onion service is automatically generated, so the operators do not need to purchase a domain name the.All traffic between Tor users and onion services is end-to-end encrypted, so you do not need to worry about connecting over HTTPS.Onion services’ location and IP address are hidden, making it difficult for adversaries to censor them or identify their operators.Onion services offer several advantages over ordinary services on the non-private web:

Onion services (formerly known as 'hidden services') are services (like websites) that are only accessible through the Tor network.

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