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Maybe I'm missing your sarcasm, you place no value in your digital privacy, or you're just completely computer illiterate. If you're capable of installing any app on your computer, you can run the tor browser. There is nothing more involved to it than downloading the tor browser bundle, running the setup file, and finally click on "Start Tor Browser.exe". My 90 year old grandmother could figure this out.

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Wow your grandmother rocks.

Aside from all that, if you don't significantly modify your browsing habits, all you've now done is increase your interestingness to the NSA et al. and made your browser run slower and use more RAM.

From barrier to entry I mean the browser itself. Chrome is just more convenient and up to date. I am a web dev and if the latest html5 gig doesn't work it might be a dealbreaker for me. Now I understand I don't have to use onion browser as my primary browser, but I just don't use more than one browsers, at all. If it's chrome then I use chrome everywhere, phone/laptop, desktop, tablet. Consistency and up to date browser is currently more important to me than my privacy.

If I set my mom up with Tor, she would gain zero benefit. Given that exit nodes are snooped on, she would actually be worse off. Hell, I seem to remember the Tor Bundle itself saying that you need to do more than just install it if you want actual privacy benefits.

So, there is a bit more involved than running an executable.

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