PRO Test is now on Tor

Test kits have just become even more accessible and anonymous than ever. PRO Test store and DrugsPRO app are now reachable as onion services on the Tor network. And for even more privacy we also have started accepting the most popular cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin (including via the Lightning Network), Monero, Ethereum, USDC and EURC. 

You can still browse and shop with us normally, or choose the .onion domains, staying even more in control of your own data. Although our site works best in “normal” web browsers with javascript enabled, you can now access most of our content securely using the TOR browser.

Our onion addresses

PRO Test
http://protest3365iqzhdzjaa4w3xxdxzf5zcn76egre4jkyk66rhs663isad.onion

DrugsPRO
http://drugsproy7ctgrgev6m4l2pb6ntccu6uzgvzt5wjk6juiinyf53bpiyd.onion

Payments
http://propay4nwvtr7vmgntwy5r4atkeadrfjaduikpbcwjwml7n7cgwxj6id.onion

These are the only official PRO Test Tor network domains. pay.protestkit.eu, and the payment onion above, is our crypto payment server; card and other payments on the regular site are handled by trusted payment providers.

All three addresses only work inside the Tor Browser. Please copy them from this page instead of typing them by hand, because onion addresses are long on purpose and a single wrong character sends you to a site that is not us. Anyone who gives you a shorter or different PRO Test onion address is not us either.

Why we did this

Looking after your safety is a matter of your choice alone, and it should stay that way. On Tor your visit is not tied to your name, your location, or your everyday browser. There is no DNS lookup, no exit node, and no certificate authority sitting in the middle. The connection is encrypted the whole way to our server, and the onion address itself works as the key, so if the page loads you know you are talking to the right machine and no one else. Your visit does not have to be visible to your internet provider, the people you share a network with, or anyone else in between.

Cryptocurrency is the same idea applied to paying. You are not handing your card details or your bank to a third party just to buy a test kit. You stay independent and in control of what you share, and Monero in particular keeps the amount and the people behind a payment private.

Please note that those benefits do come with trade-offs, particularly in term of convenience. TOR network supports less web features, and cryptocurrencies bear an inherent risk since the transactions are by design technically non refundable. 

What is Tor, and where to get it

Tor is free, open source software that lets you use the internet more privately. It sends your traffic through several relays run by volunteers around the world, so no single point can see both who you are and what you are looking at. The easiest way to use it is the Tor Browser, which you download for free from torproject.org. It is made by the Tor Project, a non profit organisation, and it is the only place you should download it from.

The idea goes back to onion routing research at the US Naval Research Laboratory in the 1990s, which was officially opened up so it could protect everyone rather than a single group. The first public version of Tor arrived in 2002, and the non profit Tor Project was founded in 2006 to look after it. It is still developed in the open and paid for by a mix of grants and donations from people who use it.

Millions of people use Tor every day. Journalists and their sources, human rights workers and people living under censorship rely on it, but so do ordinary people who simply do not want to be followed while they read, shop or ask a sensitive question. Onion services like ours live on that same network and give you a private, direct way to reach a site. Even the CIA has their homepage on TOR network!

How to visit

Install the Tor Browser from torproject.org, and only from there, then paste one of the addresses above into the address bar. That is the whole procedure.

Both sites are built to work with JavaScript turned off, so you can keep the Tor Browser security slider on its strictest Safest setting and still read and browse everything. Nothing on the onion sites needs scripts to run.

The PRO Test onion also carries our language versions. Add /pl/, /de/, /es/, /fr/, /it/, /nl/, /us/ or /ua/ to the address to switch language.

You can shop over Tor now

You can now go through the whole shop over Tor: add products to your cart, log in or check out as a guest, place your order and pay, all without leaving the Tor network. It works with JavaScript turned off, so you can keep the Tor Browser security slider on its strictest Safest setting from start to finish. Ordering over Tor works on our language versions too.

Paying with cryptocurrency or bank transfer

When you check out over Tor you can pay with cryptocurrency or a bank transfer. For crypto, choose the cryptocurrency option and pick the coin and network you want: Bitcoin (including the Lightning Network), Monero, Ethereum, USDC or EURC. We do not accept USDT and will never accept any product associated with Tether Limited Inc. due to their concerning lack of financial transparency.

Our payment page runs as its own onion service, so the payment stays inside Tor from start to finish. On the regular site all of our usual payment methods work as well. Enjoy and welcome to the .Onion!