There is pretty much no excuse not to have your phone Twitter client go through Tor. Re-enable OrBot to be able to use your Twitter client. If it doesn’t work, then Twitter is trying to use the (not running) Tor proxy. You can test this by disabling OrBot and then trying to refresh your Twitter stream.

You just need to go into the Twitter app’s Settings, click “Enable HTTP Proxy”, and set “Proxy Host” to localhost and “Proxy Port” to 8118. The Twitter client wonderfully has built in support for using a HTTP proxy. This means you can set any app that can use a HTTP or SOCKS proxy to do their Internet access through Tor instead of directly through your Wifi or cellular network. With OrBot running, you now have a HTTP and SOCKS proxy available on your phone. I have found it to have zero impact on battery life of my phone (the Battery thing in settings doesn’t show OrBot at all). There is absolutely no harm in leaving this running all the time in the background. It’s available from the Google Play store. If you’re wondering why, perhaps my previous posts on Telstra and what they do to your traffic may be a good hint.įirst of all, you’re going to want to install OrBot.

This is a short “HOWTO use Tor on Android”īasic problem: I want to use Tor on my phone. This is actually pretty simple to get going once you know how. The rest of this blog entry is left in-tact for historical record, but as of now, look at OrFox rather than this process. Installing OrBot and OrFox makes browsing through Tor on an Android device easy.

Update: As of October 2015, you should likely install the OrFox browser which is from The Tor Project and is a port of the Tor Browser to Android.

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