This is why we are exploring ways to improve the experience of readers who use Tor to access our website. The Times is dedicated to delivering quality, independent journalism, and our engineering team is committed to making sure that readers can access our journalism securely.

Some readers choose to use Tor to access our journalism because they’re technically blocked from accessing our website or because they worry about local network monitoring or because they care about online privacy or simply because that is the method that they prefer.

The New York Times reports on stories all over the world, and our reporting is read by people around the world. Today we are announcing an experiment in secure communication, and launching an alternative way for people to access our site: we are making the website available as a Tor Onion Service. The Times would like to thank the TOR Project and Alec Muffet for their support during this process. The current address for our Onion Service is Illustration by Kevin Zweerink for The New York Timesĭuring the fall of 2021, The New York Times rebuilt it’s existing Onion service, added the “ Onions Por Favor ” service to the public New York Times website, and issued a new V3 Onion address.Īs with our previous Onion Service, visitors will not be able to create Times accounts or log in to their existing Times account via the V3 Onion service.

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