XPost: comp.mobile.ipad, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: arlenholder@nospam.net   
      
   *Anyone know why there isn't a Guardian-supported version of Tor for iOS?*   
      
   It has been *years* and there still is no official version of Tor for iOS.   
   Nor is there Guardian Project support for Tor on iOS.   
      
   Android has long been supported by the Guardian Project - but not iOS.   
   Why not iOS?   
      
   Normally, brand names and trademarks don't matter since what you need is   
   the *functionality* - but I've tried all the freely available amateurish   
   Tor browsers for my iOS iPads which all suck like you can't believe (IMHO).   
      
   It seems that the official Tor browser freeware is available only on   
   Windows, Linux, and MacOS, while at least Android is supported by the   
   Guardian Project (which maintains the freeware tor-powered apps Orbot and   
   Orfox).   
      
   Yet again iOS app support lags far behind all other consumer platforms.   
      
   Since iOS always seems to lag the rest of the world in app functionality,   
   the *closest* thing to an official Tor browser I can find for iOS is ther   
   amateurish (IMHO) https://onionbrowser.com written by the venerable Mike   
   Tigas (who is primarily an investigative journalist).   
      
   Mike Tigas begs, borrows, and steals (so to speak) "community support" to   
   bring this browser to the long neglected iOS users (via Patreon backers,   
   donors, and even some ad-hoc support from the Guardian Project).   
      
   While Mike Tigas is a saint for *trying* to add functionality to iOS, it's   
   still a vastly second-rate iOS "onion browser" but which is, at least, now   
   free (it used to cost money, which is ridiculous for a web browser), and   
   it's at least open source via GitHub (which is good), and at least it gains   
   "honorable mention" at the Tor site for simply existing for iOS users:   
   https://blog.torproject.org/tor-heart-onion-browser-and-more-ios-tor   
      
   Yet, there's no doubt that it's a second-rate effort, compared to that of   
   all the other platforms that either officially support the Tor Browser   
   Bundle (i.e., desktops) or that the Guardian Project officially supports   
   (i.e., Android's Orbot and Orfox).   
      
   Since iOS is notably lacking in official support for the Tor browser,   
   the question here is simply that of the subject line:   
   *Anyone know why there isn't a Guardian-supported version of Tor for iOS?*   
      
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