# Tor VPN Beta: What we've learned building our own VPN for Android from scratch \| Tor Project

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A year ago, we soft\-launched Tor VPN Beta as a way to extend Tor's privacy protections beyond the browser to an entire Android device\. Since then, we've been able to learn from how people are actually using it in real\-world scenarios\. Learn more about what makes our per\-app

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