Hi, I am reallly confused between tor transproxy and usual transparent proxy. I mean all the people who know what tor is, also know that it’s main purpose is to provide anonymity. Right. But wait, in orbot app I always had my eyes on TOR ‘Transproxy’ which is tor’s Transparent proxy. Actually I use orbot and afwall tor add-on to completely Torify my phone. But very recently the word transparent proxy stuck in my head and called up Google for that. To my surprise I found that transparent proxy provide no anonymity what so ever. Isn’t it a disaster if tor uses a transparent proxy in orbot app which provide no anonymity. Now I really don’t know why nobody ever thought about the word transparent proxy being present in anonymity focused orbot app. I am really confused if tor is really what it claims to be. Please anybody can help me to clear my doubt. Thanks for reading.
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Transparent proxies allow the data to come from a different IP, but attach the origin information (your IP). These are generally useful for dumb geo-ip restrictions, ban evasions, or tunneling encrypted connections to parties you don’t want your ISP to know you are connecting to, or that they block. They would know that you hit a proxy, but not where your destination was if you also encrypt your DNS requests from another provider.
Non-transparent proxies don’t include the origin information, so there’s no way to know your IP unless they are logging. Good for the same things, but they increase your anonymity as the endpoint never has YOUR ip.
They all usually have a proxy port open. This open port allows you to connect to it and use it as a proxy. It also allows the recipient to know you are using a proxy as they can see that proxy port is open unless it’s set up as some random port.
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