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Orbot is a free VPN and proxy app that empowers other apps to use the internet more securely. Orbot uses Tor to encrypt your Internet traffic and then hides it by bouncing through a series of computers around the world. Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.

Orbot is a crucial component of the Guardian Project, an initiative that leads an effort to develop a secure and anonymous smartphone. This platform is designed for use by human rights activists, journalists and others around the world. Learn more: https://guardianproject.info/

Tor protects your privacy on the internet by hiding the connection between your Internet address and the services you use. We believe that Tor is reasonably secure, but please ensure you read the usage instructions and learn to configure it properly. Learn more: https://torproject.org/

Orbot is built with hev-socks5-tunnel. Before you can build Orbot, you'll need to clone the submodule for this dependency. Once cloned, Android Studio + Gradle will take care of building the C code.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/guardianproject/orbot-android

Or, if you already cloned the repo:

cd orbot-android
git pull
git submodule update --init --recursive

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