Tor in 2026: Tor VPN, WebTunnel bridges and onion hosting
Tor in 2026: the new Tor VPN for Android, WebTunnel bridges that look like web traffic, and hosting clearnet-and-onion service pairs.
Tor spent 2026 extending beyond the browser. The Tor VPN beta for Android gives every app its own isolated circuit, and WebTunnel bridges make Tor traffic resemble ordinary encrypted web traffic — the two pieces censored users most needed.
What WebTunnel bridges change
- ▹Bridge traffic over WebSocket looks like a normal browser connection to TLS gear.
- ▹Censorship resistance improves right where it matters — Iran and Turkmenistan first.
- ▹Per-app circuit isolation stops one app's activity from correlating with another's.
Onion services belong on your own box
Hosting an onion pair of your clearnet service keeps its real location hidden entirely. The pattern is proven on our stack: clearnet mirror behind a reverse proxy, canonical copy on the onion address, off-site encrypted backups in another jurisdiction. Our onion service setup guide walks the firewall-down and hostname-squared end of it.