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Without a locked down browser this is a terrible solution compared to TBB. I hope they're at least contributing relays or exits to the Tor network.

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In this case, the emphasis is on simplicity of using Tor without special browser. When you need to change IP quickly or surf from the choosen country at this moment. Privatoria redirects traffic to the Tor nodes in the selected country keeping all advantages of a Tor including the transfer of traffic between the relays every 10-15 minutes. And the traffic goes not to one specific Tor node, but it goes through a chain of Tor servers from Privatoriya proxy.

It requires that the user trust a 3rd party, as bad a solution as using Tor over a VPN, also requires trust in whatever cryptography and infrastructure Privatoria has in place, not to mention trusting that Privatoria will not compromise WRT to identifying users.

It also adds nothing WRT functionality or in ease-of-use over the TBB which is far easier to setup & get running with.

I'm sure there's a market for your service out there, but it definitely ain't me :) Like I said, I hope you're contributing to Tor (either the project or network) as Privatoria is effectively just monetising their efforts.

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