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How does a person surf the Dark Web? Or is it just porn, and other stuff? Or anything worth reading? I think it would be kind of hard to use the dark web. (lemmy.world)
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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Generally with TOR or a Tails live CD.

I personally don't find anything of value there. There is porn, legal and illegal kinds, drug stores, credit card stores, there is even a Turkish database of all their citizens from a couple years ago.

Some small communities 4chan style.

There are a lot of scam sites too, either run by feds or just regular scammers.

[–] Patnou@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ok can you further break it down? I have know idea what a TOR is, I think its a torrent. Or a Talis Live thing?

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

TOR stands for The Onion Router. It's a web browser

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago

TOR is a secure VPN service that doesn’t necessarily exit to the regular Internet; TOR Browser is a Firefox-based web browser with the TOR VPN client built in.

[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 week ago

this is true ✅