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Have you ever used the dark web and for what purposes? I even found several such forums, but I could not open them. It feels like the browser just doesn't support them.

Yes the traditional browers like Chrome or Firefox won't support the dark web. The dark web is just an part of the internet, that can't be accessed via www. You need a different browser like TOR to access the dark web. While there are also quite a lot of criminal activities going on, there are also quite a lot of average people.

Is that what Using Web when the light is off? that's why its called Dark Web?  ;)

anyway Like what Mauser says you need to use different browser that support the area in internet aside from those we usually use.

What makes you think this place will help you with that? We are honest people here, we own and discuss Bitcoin, we don't deal with any dark web ! :)

I haven't.

You need a TOR browser to visit dark web websites. That's why you probably are experiencing that you just can't open them.

I guess Dark Web is the one with .onion or something?
I tried going through something like that (.Onions I guess) once or few times many years ago after watching a YouTube video or probably reading articles about it. It was too slow and boring to browse through,i guess with a special browser. Not sure I saw anything bad there, maybe because I focused on things that can't easily be found there.
I doubt I can use such web if it is not  Transparent, Decentralized, safe, consensus driven, and share other important ideals of True Cryptocurrency. The normal web is already too risky for me

I dont know very much about the Dark Web but I know its highly illegal do go to the site so for this reason alone I am not going to ever visit it.

I have never accessed the dark web, because hearing that the dark web is widely used by criminal activities makes me not interested in accessing it.
Actually anyone can access the dark web, but must use the TOR browser. Because on the dark web there is an illegal market place, so a lot of people
who trade illegal goods, most often drug transactions may occur. Moreover, there are a lot of hackers roaming around, making it even more unsafe
to visit the dark web.

Nooo, I think dark web is when you switch to dark theme mode when viewing websites. This is a new trend in web development.
There are those who even believe that the dark web should be called eco-friendly because of its low electricity consumption.

I wonder if it a mere site(website?) or underground cyberspace/internet?
You could go underground if the surface cyberspace becomes hostile/evil/tyrannical. What matter is what they do underground... Causing problems or solving problems in morally acceptable manner?
The only thing still preventing me from using  such underground space is transparency and other good/important ideals that can be found in true cryptocurrency.

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Oopps,, it is called dark more not the dark web. Dark web is something a site uses onion links to access their sites which is anonymous and can't be traced out easily. TOR browser can access onion links but with very less speed than how we used to be on chrome.

I have also heard something about it not sure what exactly is the purpose of it, like cant be done that on the websites which is like password protected or something or probably only it cannot be tracked, is that the purpose due to which people use it?

Dark web is for example drug users, there is almost everything what you need.

I think it’s a lot different than that. Dark web is all about anonymity. It is a collection of hidden websites and applications that provide the features of anonymous web browsing along with anonymous file storage. Most of these websites are accessible only via Tor browser, an encrypted network that allows you to browse the internet safely from any location.

But as most of us know, the dark web has it’s dark side. It is an area that is used for the sale of drugs and illegal activities. It is also used by criminals to sell and trade items they could not sell on the official market. Nowadays, dark web is widely known as the criminal’s haven.

you both made me laugh lol  ;D ;D ;D

at least both of you is declaring the specific meaning of being Dark Web   ;D

Yeah. Unfortunately, some people don't understand sarcasm.  :D

You are closer than most other posts in this thread, but you are incorrect about electricity (because we don't use CRTs anymore), tho it might be true for oleds most computer screens are still LCD with white leds as backpanel. Dark is easier for the eyes when you are not in the sun, the Stylus add on is your friend...

Dark web.... well for starters The Onion Router is not the only "hidden" network.
No you don't need TOR browser to browse a .onion site, this is false. But its a good idea because things like Chrome and Firefox are spying on you.
This is basically internet without rules, most content is self hosted anonymously from people's own computers, which are not exactly server class so fast it isn't.

Content varies. It does not necessarily mean criminal garbage, there is also political dissidence from countries where this isn't allowed. Most criminal content is actually set up by authorities to try and catch you anyway.

Here is Duckduckgo "dark" web edition. Its no different than the normal one: https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/
And it will give you results from the normal web, its not a .onion search engine but those do exist.
Of course, you cannot open that url if your computer is not set up for TOR. Nowdays they bundle it with a browser, but this is optional. TOR runs standalone and you can connect anything that supports socks4a/5, such as your Bitcoin wallet...

Tor is a bit unusual to the others in that it allows access to the normal web from it, but i don't recommend doing that, your IP will change a lot and will be nearly universally banned or heavily crippled (even this forum does that which is ironic as satoshi used it) or you'll be tortured to death with captchas.

Content hosted inside those separate networks is what some call "dark", but doesn't say anything about the content itself. It can be nothing special like wikipedia or some horrible picture. Again, internet without rules, anything goes you have been warned.

Imagine your social media had no moderation, something like that.

You got me there  :D

Look coz I've been watching you  ;)


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Hope OP now got the Idea of what is dark web and how this work from our Valuable answer  ;D

This is probably a better answer than this topic deserves. It is commendable that you took the time for such an exhaustive reply.
I'm sorry I don't have more merits to share with you, but you have my UPVOTE.  8)

Artemis is one of the best Poster that I have seen in this Forum , He is even once a Member of Our Long term Campaign not sure if Bitvest or 777coin but He is One great poster that deserves to be acknowledge .


I don't want to explain Further because @Artemis3 already completed the details about Dark Web lol.

You can try the dark web by opening this http://wtj5psom5zufu4yo.onion forum. I even opened via Firefox and Chrome if using a VPN. But usually a TOR browser is used for this.
By the way, I often chat on forums on the darkweb.

I've visited there once or twice to feed my curiosity, not for any special purpose. It can be accessed by Tor Browser, it doesn't support the usual www sites so, I doubt if Chrome and normal browsers would be able to operate the forums in the dark Web. It is a part of the web, though not openly accessible like every other ones out here.

When it comes to onion links, it is always better to use the tor browser. However, there are some ways to open onion links from other browsers than tor.

You can use "Onion search engine" chrome extensions to open .onion links from chrome.
You can also open onion links with Firefox without any external extensions:
https://toptechpal.com/how-to-open-onion-links-on-chrome/

Is it safer? I'm afraid that Dark web will make us suffer risk using our details via internet.

but is there any chance that we will be safer?

I don't understand what you mean. How can the dark web be more or less secure for your personal information?
It is your responsibility to protect your private information.

The dark web is where people can buy illegal drugs and firearms. It's also dotted with sites that specialize in illicit pornography, including child pornography. It's a part of the internet that you can't find with traditional search engines such as Google. Because it is hidden..

Darkweb is a collection of websites that cannot operate on mainstream internet because of Government restrictions on the services they're offering.
So they operate on another protocol.
Think of this like Bitcoin and Bank.

Bank <--> Internet (Gov controlled)
Bitcoin <--> Darkweb (Out of Gov Control)

I know this was a bad comparison but it proves the point.

Thanks perfectly explained.

The 'dark web' is not just TOR/.onion domains used by criminals to carry out illegal activities. . There are other ways to hide content as well, and hiding content is not inherently 'evil'.

People talk about 'dark web' and 'deep web', and suggest that 'deep web' is not-indexed data, and the dark is '.onion' sites, but it is a fair bit more complicated.


In the beginning, the WWW was DARK (and not yet deep).  There were several WWW sites, and unless you had them bookmarked, or use a directory, they were hard to find. If you wanted to find new stuff on the web, you basically had to get to it from a link from a site you already knew.  Search engines tried to make this better, but in the early days searching the web and actually finding what you were looking for - was not nearly as easy to do as today.

Privacy on the internet, became (and continues to be) a concern, with people giving away their private information, without even knowing it, and with organizations tracking that information for their own nefarious terms. 

The WWW has moved into the *light* (non-dark). Websites today require you to share who you really are, where you really are, and what your are doing. Nothing is private, and almost everything is open to be 'seen'.  An entire generation of people today simply 'accept this' as they way the world is.


Technology such as TOR (and VPN for that matter) help people respect privacy, it makes it very hard to trace what YOU are doing on the internet. In a sense you have 'gone dark' (not dark meaning 'evil') but dark meaning like 'hard to find'

But this technology is a double edged sword, if you are 'hiding' what you are doing, people commonly ask 'why? - what do you have to hide?', many people hide there illegal, immoral, or otherwise disgusting things, but they still need to 'share' these things with others, and so dark web site frequently (not entirely) but  frequently are used by people to preform actions unacceptable to society as a whole.

BUT the Dark Web has "good" side. There are many areas in the world where regular websites (facebook, google, news sites) are not accessible in those countries. ISP's (or the countries) prevent users from seeing these sites.  Essentially operating as a type of 'propaganda' machine, prevent people from reading the point of views of others that are against those of their institution. 

So sites like facebook, duckduckgo, riseup (and even the CIA) have dark web sites TOO.  Not because they want to do illegal activities, but so that others who may not have access to freedom of speech and thought, can get access, and cannot be tracked or prosecuted for doing so.

As I said, it is not just '.onion domains' that make things 'dark' . Cryptocurrency can be used to help give access or share access in areas of the world where they would otherwise not be able to. One famous example is of a student who was raped in a collage, the story was hidden from the public, and she got the word out by sending her story as text inside blockchain transactions. Her story is now permanently etched into the Ethereum blockchain. (Google '#meetoo ethereum censorship' to learn more)

Yes I have used the Dark Web, and like anything else, a tool/technology is what you choose to make of it. Just as not all bitcoin is used for illegal activities, not all dark web is for illegal things either, but it helps keep you more or less 'private' or 'anonymous'. 

My advice - If you decide to get into TOR - never be and END node.  Those that choose to run TOR as an END node are indeed brave (or just dumb). In such situations, expect to get a lot of calls from anti-piracy sites, police organizations, etc. You are essentially sharing your IP address with others, and the end node is always traceable back to you (even if you were sharing it with someone else)

I tried to find websites in ".onion" related but unable to find any, most of what i found were dead links on open web, so after a while i stopped looking in dark web it became borking, If anyone has any links that works then post here or PM me.

Where illegal stuff goes on.

If you want to get started go here https://tails.boum.org/
Use a USB stick to install tails onto and boot from that on a separate laptop/pc.

It doesn't work that way; dark web links can't be found using traditional search engines; all you'll find are fake and low quality sites.
In order to access dark web content, you have to know exactly the .onion web address you type into the browser or use a bookmark to access it.

Lol don't just specified the negative part of darkweb because there are also good use of the area like how we use our traditional browser.

though it has been used and abused by criminals and bad elements , but remember that even in regular browser there are still drugs and firearms buying and selling.

If you invent something to fight or escape evil, you'll need to make the invention difficult for evil to thrive on it otherwise the evil you are trying to fight with your invention will use it against you and others... then you end up creating More problems and probably solving little to no problem.

Well it's best to stay away from darkweb, who knows if your IP gets leaked somehow and some psychopath gets your address then you're doomed.

I am not certain that the responsibility of how a person uses an invention should rest on the shoulders of the inventor. I would think it rests within the society that uses it.

What I can tell you from experience with software development, is making a technology 'hard for evil to thrive', just makes 'hackers' see it as a challenge and they will
work EVEN harder to break it.

To prove this, simply post to all your social media the phrase that your PC is completely firewalled and unhackable and the IP Address is x.x.x.x

Or better yet include a link to the song 'unhackable' by Bob Ricci. 

I am using the terms 'hacker' and 'evil' loosely here for illustration purposes not all hackers do 'evil', and like beauty - evil can be in the hands of the beholder too.

a) Your chances of your 'IP' being leaked are the same regardless if you are on the dark web or not

b) Generally speaking your 'IP' is never tied to your home address, (I assume that is what you mean by a psychopath getting your 'address'?)  I suppose if you are on your mobile, and your GPS is on, and your phone is hacked, but again the risk of this does not change dark web or not

c) As noted previously, you can use TOR without being an 'end node'. If you are not an 'end node'. The traffic is not traceable to you in any direct way, you are just a peeling of an onion of routed traffic

What you're saying makes no sense to me. Why would anyone be harmed just by using the dark web?
It's like saying: it's best to stay away from the Internet.

What is the dark web?


Black spray paint where the spider lives.


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Darkness is the opposite of brightness and Difficult due to lack of light or visible light

Dark Web or Dark Net is a place where there are sites that sell drugs, hacking software, counterfeit money, human trafficking and more. You might get tracked and blackmailed by the people. NEVER reveal your identity on the dark web, stay anonymous and use VPN to be at better side. People at the dark web may hack into your personal systems and get all the information about you and can blackmail you. They can hack your webcams and microphones.

To be simply its the bad side of the internet. When you enter you see people selling drugs and humans. There are many gross videos which can make you sick to stomach (really sick). People being beaten and killed are filmed and uploaded there. Its a very bad and inhuman place where one shouldn’t go (normally).

(If you are looking to access hidden marketplace’s or dark-net websites then dark web access is done using the TOR network with the TOR browser bundle. TOR is the most widely used dark web browser).

You cannot use real world currency there and you should never use your real bank account to make transaction, there are plenty of hacker and crackers waiting for you to get bait. For any transaction you will need to use cryptocurrency and Bitcoin is the most used cryptocurrency on the dark web.

Never used it but heard it's not safe for people.

So aliens are using it.  8)

Darkweb is not under control, there is no moderation and mostly people are there to trade illegal things like drugs, child pornography,etc but there are also lot of crazy things available there so its safe as long as you know how to play it safe.

Tor supports the dark web but if i were you then i would stay away from it.

I would recommend you dont try and access dark web , you could get yourself in trouble. I've got a friend that just went into a darkweb site and left , couple mounths ago he got caught with weed in him and he got extra year probation cuz of the darkweb search. I dont know how they knew

In my opinion, your friend got into trouble not because of the Dark Web, but because he got caught with illegal narcotics. But that's just my suspicion, I might not have all the facts.