ROMbug Onion: A Tor Browser with Onion Routing, Privacy and a Separate Identity

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ROMbug Onion — A separate route. A separate identity.

Onion-routed browser

Three strangers carry it.<br>None of them knows both ends.

A separate route.<br>A separate identity.

ROMbug Onion sends every page you open through three volunteer<br>relays before it reaches the web. The first relay knows who you are but not<br>where you're going. The last knows where you're going but not who you are.<br>Nobody in the chain holds both halves.

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CIRCUIT STATUS<br>Onion profile

Onion networkRouted through TorACTIVE

Exit IP185.220.101.44MASKED

Exit countryNetherlandsEXIT

CircuitGuard &rarr; Middle &rarr; ExitBUILT

DNSResolving through TorTUNNELLED

How it works

One page. Three hops. No single point that sees it all.

Ordinary browsing is a straight line from your machine to the site, and every<br>hop along the way can read both ends of it. Onion routing breaks that line into<br>three legs and gives each one only half the picture.

HOP 01 &middot; GUARD

Sees you, not the site

The first relay receives traffic from your connection, so it knows your IP<br>address. What it passes on is still wrapped in two more layers of encryption,<br>so it has no idea which site you asked for.

HOP 02 &middot; MIDDLE

Sees neither end

The middle relay only knows the relay before it and the relay after it. It<br>never learns your address and never learns the destination. It exists so the<br>first and last hop can't compare notes.

HOP 03 &middot; EXIT

Sees the site, not you

The exit relay makes the actual request to the website. The site logs the<br>exit relay's IP address, in whatever country it happens to sit. Your own<br>address never appears in that log.

What an ordinary browser gives away

Your address is on every request you make.

hop between you and them

Every site you open receives your public IP address, because it<br>needs somewhere to send the reply. Your internet provider sees the name of every<br>site you look up. Neither of them asked your permission; it's simply how a direct<br>connection works.

Your provider sees

Which sites you connect to, when, and for how long — even when the pages<br>themselves are encrypted.

The site sees

Your public IP address, which maps to your city and your provider, and<br>follows you from visit to visit.

Everything in between sees

Routers, resolvers and any network you're borrowing — a café, a hotel, an<br>airport — sit on the same straight line.

ROMbug Onion doesn't ask you to trust a company with that<br>line. It removes the line.

What's in it

The onion network, in a browser that looks like yours.

Onion routing has always worked. The hard part has been living with the<br>software. ROMbug Onion keeps the routing and drops the ceremony.

Live circuit view

See the three relays your traffic is using right now, which countries they<br>sit in, and the exit address the web is seeing on your behalf.

New identity, one click

Tear down the circuit, clear the session and start again on a fresh route.<br>Nothing from the last one comes with you.

Its own profile

Separate cookies, cache, history and settings, kept apart from ROMbug Earth<br>and from every other browser on the machine.

Security levels

Standard, Safer and Safest. Turn off the browser features most often used to<br>fingerprint or attack you, without editing a config file.

Leak checks that run

WebRTC, DNS and IPv6 are audited continuously, and the panel says plainly<br>whether anything is travelling outside the circuit.

Your homepage, your search

Set any start page you like — the ROMbug page, a custom address, or a blank<br>tab. No search engine is bundled and none is pre-selected for you.

Compare

Where onion routing fits.

A VPN moves your traffic to a company you have to trust. Onion routing spreads<br>it across three parties who each know too little to matter. They solve different<br>problems, and neither one is a magic cloak.

Capability<br>ROMbug OnionONION ROUTED<br>Ordinary browser<br>VPN alone

Site sees your real IP address<br>No<br>YES<br>No

One party can link you to the site<br>No party holds both<br>PROVIDER CAN<br>THE VPN CAN

Reaches .onion addresses

Live view of the route your traffic took<br>SOMETIMES

Isolated profile, nothing shared with your other browsing

Fast enough for video<br>NOT ITS JOB

Onion routing trades speed for separation. If you want a fast<br>encrypted tunnel with site intelligence on top, that's<br>ROMbug Earth.<br>Plenty of people run both.

Pricing

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Windows 10 & 11 and Ubuntu Linux

Live circuit view and one-click new identity

Three security levels and continuous leak checks

Its own profile, kept apart from everything else

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