A separate route.
A separate identity.
ROMbug Onion sends every page you open through three volunteer relays before it reaches the web. The first relay knows who you are but not where you're going. The last knows where you're going but not who you are. Nobody in the chain holds both halves.
Ordinary browsing is a straight line from your machine to the site, and every hop along the way can read both ends of it. Onion routing breaks that line into three legs and gives each one only half the picture.
The first relay receives traffic from your connection, so it knows your IP address. What it passes on is still wrapped in two more layers of encryption, so it has no idea which site you asked for.
The middle relay only knows the relay before it and the relay after it. It never learns your address and never learns the destination. It exists so the first and last hop can't compare notes.
The exit relay makes the actual request to the website. The site logs the exit relay's IP address, in whatever country it happens to sit. Your own address never appears in that log.
Every site you open receives your public IP address, because it needs somewhere to send the reply. Your internet provider sees the name of every site you look up. Neither of them asked your permission; it's simply how a direct connection works.
Which sites you connect to, when, and for how long — even when the pages themselves are encrypted.
Your public IP address, which maps to your city and your provider, and follows you from visit to visit.
Routers, resolvers and any network you're borrowing — a café, a hotel, an airport — sit on the same straight line.
ROMbug Onion doesn't ask you to trust a company with that line. It removes the line.
Onion routing has always worked. The hard part has been living with the software. ROMbug Onion keeps the routing and drops the ceremony.
See the three relays your traffic is using right now, which countries they sit in, and the exit address the web is seeing on your behalf.
Tear down the circuit, clear the session and start again on a fresh route. Nothing from the last one comes with you.
Separate cookies, cache, history and settings, kept apart from ROMbug Earth and from every other browser on the machine.
Standard, Safer and Safest. Turn off the browser features most often used to fingerprint or attack you, without editing a config file.
WebRTC, DNS and IPv6 are audited continuously, and the panel says plainly whether anything is travelling outside the circuit.
Set any start page you like — the ROMbug page, a custom address, or a blank tab. No search engine is bundled and none is pre-selected for you.
A VPN moves your traffic to a company you have to trust. Onion routing spreads it across three parties who each know too little to matter. They solve different problems, and neither one is a magic cloak.
| Capability | ROMbug OnionONION ROUTED | Ordinary browser | VPN alone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Site sees your real IP address | No | YES | No |
| One party can link you to the site | No party holds both | PROVIDER CAN | THE VPN CAN |
| Reaches .onion addresses | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Live view of the route your traffic took | ✓ | ✗ | SOMETIMES |
| Isolated profile, nothing shared with your other browsing | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Fast enough for video | NOT ITS JOB | ✓ | ✓ |
Onion routing trades speed for separation. If you want a fast encrypted tunnel with site intelligence on top, that's ROMbug Earth. Plenty of people run both.
No tool does. Onion routing hides your address from the sites you visit and hides the sites from your provider, which is a great deal — but if you sign in to an account, that account still knows who you are. How you behave in the browser matters as much as how the traffic is routed.
Download and install it first — that part is free. Open it, press Connect, and it will ask for a licence key. Press Buy for $19.99 on that card, put in your email, and payment opens in your usual browser. The key arrives by email a moment later; paste it in and you are done.
The browser will not build a circuit until a key is entered, so it does nothing useful before you buy. There is no trial.
The licence card in the app has an I’ve lost my key button. Put in the email you bought with and it sends the key again. Keep the original email too — it is how you install on another computer.
No. ROMbug Onion is $19.99 once and it stays yours. There's no renewal, no account to cancel and nothing to remember. The onion network itself is free and run by volunteers — you're paying for the browser we built on top of it, not for the routing.
ROMbug Earth routes you through one server run by one company, and shows you intelligence about every site you land on. It's fast. ROMbug Onion routes you through three independent relays, so no single party can connect you to your destination — at the cost of speed. Different tools for different afternoons.
Your traffic is taking three extra trips, often across continents, on relays run by volunteers. That's the price of the separation. Reading and browsing feel fine; large downloads and video do not.
None by default. The start page is a ROMbug page with an address bar, and you choose a search provider in Settings if you want one. Nothing is bundled and nothing is pre-selected.
No. ROMbug Onion keeps its own profile — cookies, cache, history, settings — separate from ROMbug Earth and from Chrome, Edge or Firefox on the same machine.
Yes. Onion addresses only resolve inside the network, so a normal browser can't open them at all.