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A short Tor Watch glossary for beginners

A few words come up again and again. Here they are in plain terms.

  • First visit
  • 4 parts
  • Checked

1Onion and mirror

An onion is an address inside Tor; a tor watch mirror is an extra onion address for the same service.

2Relay and circuit

Relays are volunteer servers that pass traffic along; a circuit is the chain of relays your connection uses.

3Bridge

A hidden relay that helps you connect where Tor is blocked.

4Checked link

On this site, a torwatch URL that has been matched against its source and dated.