Purposes for using tor?
Throwaway account because husband knows my main one. I have known my husband has a severe sex/porn addiction. I have stuck by him as he supposedly worked through it (but lied about it). I recently found that he searched for and loaded the Tor browser app onto his phone in 2023 (this is supposedly while he was working recovery).
I know what Tor accesses. Everyone knows what Tor accesses. And regular people (ie non governmental hackers and spies) really don't use Tor right? Unless they're trying to find bad things, generally regular folks don't use it?
Within the context of my husband's addiction...I should be scared by this, shouldn't I? If he wanted to access legal porn secretly, he could have used any VPN to bypass restrictions and hide it from me. Using Tor is different right? It IS what I think it is?
When I first stumbled upon his vast porn collection years ago, there was no evidence of csam (just the usual "barely legal" teen stuff), but I saw how over time based on dates things were loaded and saved, that what he watched did escalate and get progressively more intense, such as extremely violent porn. He also at one point back then searched for a video that was highly discussed on Reddit for a while, that was supposedly of a man actually raping his girlfriend. So real rape porn has at least been a curiosity before.
It's not a far stretch, seeing as how this addiction does escalate, that he was on tor to at the least search illegal torture porn or rape porn, and at worst csam...is it?
Please help. I have asked him about it and he says he "doesn't remember loading it" and "there is absolutely no reason he would have had that app". I'm spiralling and I think I need to run far from this man. Or maybe I need a reality check and it's not always nefarious?
Edit: I knew I'd get downvoted hard and attacked, and it really doesn't matter. The situation is what it is, and I am only here to ask about purposes of using Tor and if there is any other possible explanation in order to give my husband the benefit of the doubt.