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Mercurygram Tor Plugin

Timothy Redaelli

Tor companion plugin that routes Mercurygram traffic through the Tor network

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About Mercurygram Tor Plugin

Tor companion plugin for Mercurygram.

It runs the Tor daemon in a background service and exposes a local SOCKS5

proxy, which Mercurygram uses to carry MTProto traffic over the Tor network

when the "Use Tor" option is enabled.

The plugin ships separately so that the Tor binaries and the geoip databases,

about 25 MB per architecture, are only downloaded by the people who actually

use them. It has no user interface and does nothing on its own: without

Mercurygram installed, nothing ever asks it to start.

How to install Mercurygram Tor Plugin

  1. Tap Download — the app's official page on F-Droid opens.
  2. Install it with the F-Droid app (recommended, for automatic updates), or use the download button on that page.
  3. If Android asks, allow the F-Droid app or your browser to install apps, then tap Install.
  4. Open Mercurygram Tor Plugin from your app drawer.

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