DIVE SAFELY IN THE DEEPWEB/DARKWEB USING ORFOX with ORBOT ON APK FOR ANDROID/PC

What Is the Deep Web?

The terms deep web and dark web are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing. Deep web simply refers to anything on the web that can’t be found using a search engine.

This means anything behind a paywall, anything that is password protected, or anything that is dynamically generated on the fly and doesn’t have a permanent URL — all of these things are said to comprise the deep web because they don’t exist at the surface of the web.

You actually access the deep web routinely, every day. The emails in your Gmail account, your online bank statements, your office intranet, direct messages in Twitter, photos you’ve uploaded to Facebook and marked as private. These are all the deep web.

It isn’t known how large the deep web is, but estimates from researchers suggest it’s likely to constitute the overwhelming majority of all online content.

The deep web might also be referred to as the invisible web or the hidden web, adding another layer of mystery to something that is actually quite mundane. The opposite of the deep web is the surface web, which is all the content you will can find through a Google search, for example.

But there’s more. The deep web is also where masses of raw data is stored, whether government resources, data for use by scientists, or in the form of databases that you can use for your own research. Not only that, but there’s an even deeper level to the deep web…

What Is the Dark Web?

The dark web is part of — but not the same as — the deep web. Not only can you not find it through a search engine, but you cannot access it through a regular web browser either. This is the nefarious underbelly of the internet that the media refers to.

The dark web is home to anonymously hosted websites that deal largely in illegal activities. In a study of over 5,000 sites on the dark web, Daniel Moore & Thomas Rid found that just over half of those active sites were dealing in illicit activities, including drugs, extremism, illegal pornography, and weapons.

However, since it’s an effective way of communicating online without being traced, the dark web is also used by dissidents or journalists in countries where the internet is heavily censored or by those who simply don’t want to be surveilled online.

In fact, the privacy-centric search engine Duck Duck Go runs a hidden service on the dark web.

Most sites on the dark web use the Tor encryption tool, but there are others services too, including I2P and Freenet. You need specialist software to access these services and the sites that use them. It isn’t illegal to browse the dark web in most countries, but using some of the dark web services can definitely be illegal.

Using the dark web is a little like stepping back in time to the early days of the internet. Sites are often rudimentary in style, and there are few search engines to help you find your way around.

The best way to find sites is through directories such as The Hidden Wiki, which maintains a list of many of them. It’s also extremely slow, an inevitable side-effect of the anonymizing process. Sites also go down frequently.

How to Access the Dark Web

The Tor Browser is the main application for accessing the dark web. Tor stands for The Onion Router — the onion metaphor indicates the layers of security that work to conceal a user’s location, and the browser enables you to access hidden web sites with the .onion domain suffix.

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