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Orbot is a free Android app that enables other apps to browse the internet more securely. Orbot uses Tor to encrypt Internet traffic and then hides it by routing through a series of nodes around the world.

Orbot is an Android app developed by The Guardian Project.

From the orbot homepage, "Orbot is a free proxy app that empowers other apps to use the internet more securely. Orbot uses Tor to encrypt your Internet traffic and then hides it by bouncing through a series of computers around the world."

A list of resources to learn more about Orbot:

Orbot page.

Wikipedia page on Orbot.

Tor Project page on Orbot

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Are There Any Working Dependencies for Tor/Orbot Library for Android?

I'm currently developing a kotlin webview/browser app for android. I wanted to use the tor/orbot library which doesn't require user to have tor/orbot app installed to use it via my browser. But, whenever I tried importing a correct tor/Orbot library…
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Spring boot upload image using orbot

We are looking for a solution where uploading images using orbot. We are using Android client to implement it and server side spring boot is used. When we upload image (3 images or more), we get Socket Exception in Android even when the images are…
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Android - How to let Tor service to perform the DNS resolution using Socket?

I want to use Java Socket with SOCKS proxy to connect on Tor (I am using Orbot and Tor service is running on port 9050 ). I got the error : I/System.out: java.net.UnknownHostException: Host is unresolved: 3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion My code is as…
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orbot as proxy with jaunt web-scraping

I am working on app (android) that is supposed to visit website & retrieve some data from there. I was thinking it would be nice to use tor so I would not leave so much info about myself. I've completed scraping part and everything works. Problem…
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How would I stop something that was started by an app for itself without stopping the app?

Note: I'm fairly new to linux/android when it comes to using the shell and commands/scripting, so if I've given some unrelevant information, or I'm trying to do something not possible, please tell me what's not relevant and why something is not…
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Can stackoverflow create mirror sites for blocked f-droid apps?

New information below: I have been using Orbot for android for a while now and suddenly I was having issues with it stopping suddenly causing difficulty loading some sites. So I uninstalled it and when I tried to re-install it from F-droid I got a…
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Orbot Netcipher connecting to .onion urls

So, I'm trying to get my app to work with .onion domains, but all I get is a 405 error for a response. I have tried everything, my code seems to work when I try http://check.torproject.org it says that its…
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Cannot connect to data network after using Tor VPN (Orbot) on Android

When I disconnect from OrbotVPN on my phone while connected to data network, internet connection stops working on all applications except whatsapp. Any idea how to resolve this issue?
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Switching to new Tor identity on Android using QPython

After successfully installing QPython and Orbot on my Android device, I've pip-installed a well-known stem library and tried to use it for changing Tor identity by sending NEWNYM signal to control port. On PC, this code from stem.control import…
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Orbot (Tor) refusing SOCKS connection at port 9050

I have app that is connecting to orbot socks proxy on port 9050. It worked till today but now it looks like this port is blocked. If I try to connect it my socket gets closed and I get stream closed exception. However if I change port on both Orbot…
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