The first part was tailored for Tor Browser’s needs, and the other two were out of personal curiosity. I designed the study in three parts as discussed below. The research proposal was awarded the grant because Tor Browser was interested in conducting user research for their on-boarding desktop experience, but also because the study was located in the Global South, specifically with two feminist organizations in Costa Rica. In 2021, I participated with a grant project from Internews that allowed me to conduct a user research study with Tor Browser. Additionally, their research is open and accessible to anyone who’s interested-from just reading reports to conducting their own research project. To overcome these challenges, the Tor Project has developed research guidelines that respect privacy while ensuring best practices. For example, they don’t collect data from users (as all the other browsers do such as Chrome, Edge, Opera, Firefox, Safari, etc.) therefore, all their research initiatives depend on other means that are hard to conduct because its users are people who value privacy and anonymity. The very nature of Tor’s existence and mission makes it an interesting project for me to study, as their attitude toward privacy goes beyond their competitors, and therefore, their technology and design process takes a different shape. This browser focuses on privacy-first techniques that scrambles all possible information that could be used to pinpoint your exact physical location, making your online activity difficult to trace. The Tor Browser is one of the tools developed by the Tor Project that helps people protect their identities.
Guided by common values such as privacy, anonymity, security, and freedom, these individuals build technologies that shield users from tracking, surveillance, and censorship while using the internet. nonprofit composed of individuals from all around the world.
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