Sicurezza e Privacy 👨🏻‍💻 🔐

Tor with idle auto-stop (optional companion APK) — Settings → Mercurygram → Privacy → Use Tor. Tor support now lives in a separate, optional companion APK on F-Droid (Mercurygram Tor Plugin, package it.belloworld.mercurygram.plugin.tor); toggling Use Tor prompts to install the plugin if it isn't present. The plugin runs the same daemon (vendored from tor-android, built reproducibly from source) in its own process — only the packaging changes. MTProto is pinned to a loopback SOCKS5 the moment the toggle flips so direct connections cannot leak even before bootstrap finishes. Tor shuts down after a debounced idle window (default 5 min, configurable) once the app is backgrounded and no VoIP / downloads are active, and restarts on resume or on a UnifiedPush fallback wake — keeping battery cost in the same range as upstream Telegram while the user is not actively using the app. Telegram still sees the Tor exit; latency-sensitive features (calls) may suffer.