The NYT is experimenting with secure communication by making their website available as a Tor Onion Service. They explain that some readers use Tor because their access is technically blocked, or because they worry about local network monitoring or online privacy, so they are making their website accessible via a special, secure, and hard-to-block VPN-like “tunnel” through the Tor network.



The New York Times’ Onion Service is both experimental and under development. This means that certain features, such as logins and comments, are disabled until the next phase of our implementation. We will be fine-tuning site performance, so there may be occasional outages while we make improvements to the service. Our goal is to match the features currently available on the main New York Times website. Over time, we plan to share the lessons that we have learned — and will learn — about scaling and running an Onion Service.

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