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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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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

It is. I was curious many years ago, and downloaded a TOR browser to see what it was all about.

It's not as easy as Googling what ever your looking for. Or, at least not when I tried. You pretty much had to know where to start and follow links like breadcrumbs to see where they would take you.

I did find some stuff, most of it was harmless privacy obsessed blogs but I did find some clearly illegal sites.

It really was a pain to navigate, and more of a waste of time than anything, since I wasn't looking to accomplish any "dark" goals.

I guess those that NEED to access the dark web, will learn how to do what they need, but 99% of people will never have reason to bother.