# Settings \> Preferences \> "Ignore peers with onion address" (Need info) **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [July 17, 2019, 3:41am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/settings-preferences-ignore-peers-with-onion-address-need-info/8070 "2019-07-17T03:41:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![huey](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/huey/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@huey](https://bisq.community/u/huey)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2019, 9:15pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/settings-preferences-ignore-peers-with-onion-address-need-info/8070/6 "2019-07-17T21:15:06Z")
The onion address is stored in the Bisq directory along with other properties. You can however get a new one by creating a new directory. > [@How to switch to a new data directory](https://bisq.community/t/how-to-switch-to-a-new-data-diretory/7583): > > There are several reasons why users might want to start over newly with a new data diretory: Privay Stability Performance Privay If you trade a lot and use always the same data directory your onion address is connected with all offers and you might leak more information as you want to. Beside that the wallets transactions easily leak privay on the blockchain level (coin merge). Stability The internal wallet-database can get messed up in certain situations (hard to reproduce issues but there … --- _[View the full topic](https://bisq.community/t/settings-preferences-ignore-peers-with-onion-address-need-info/8070)._