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Firefox will support Tor and user anonymity
Mozilla has partnered with the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and the Tor Project to launch a strategic Polaris initiative to protect user privacy and anonymity. Polaris will run two experiments related to the Firefox browser.
For example, Mozilla plans to implement the developments of programmers from the Tor project in Firefox in order to evaluate whether this will help speed up work on the anonymous network. In addition, the organization will run several internal servers on the Tor network, which will help increase its productivity.
The second experiment is to implement a feature in Firefox that, on the one hand, will protect users from surveillance, and on the other hand, will not harm advertisers and sites that respect the preferences of visitors.
In October 2014, Harris Poll conducted a massive survey on behalf of Mozilla of over 7,000 users aged 18 to 64. 74 percent of respondents felt their online personal information was less secure than it was a year earlier.
- The Tor network is used for anonymous access to web resources. In it, traffic is repeatedly redirected between intermediate servers so that the final server does not know where the user is accessing it from.
- Tor Browser, the official browser for connecting to Tor, is based on Firefox.