In the days that everything ran on Clearnet/Telegram..
Do you find yourself entering the darkweb (onion-based sites), is it still necessary? If so, for what purposes?

I'm curious... I find all I need on Telegram or markets/forums that I can access from any simple browser.
Ignoring that most of the stuff there is a scam
Sometimes I feel little bit FOMO and trying to figure out if there are places I don't know that might be useful.

Tor is very privacy friendly, that's why we still use it.

(October 26, 2022, 12:03 PM)mishka Wrote: Tor is very privacy friendly, that's why we still use it.

I don't mean using the browser for privacy. I'm talking about if you still use it for access spesific websites that ran only there.

For privacy, you can still use a virtual machine, antidetect browsers with at least 2 VPN layers of protection, and Android emulators and it will be also effective.

I wouldn't access, let's say, Breached, on my clean one.
besides, dread etc are onion-only.

For privacy only rdp and vps is enough with good vpn

(October 26, 2022, 12:14 PM)SunWuk0ng Wrote:

(October 26, 2022, 12:03 PM)mishka Wrote: Tor is very privacy friendly, that's why we still use it.

I don't mean using the browser for privacy. I'm talking about if you still use it for access spesific websites that ran only there.

For privacy, you can still use a virtual machine, antidetect browsers with at least 2 VPN layers of protection, and Android emulators and it will be also effective.

So... you would rather use a browser inside an android emulator inside of a virtual machine than to just use the tor browser? I guess your point makes sense but you have to draw the line where the pain outweighs the gain.

Also yes, dread is a good example of something that only runs on tor.

(October 26, 2022, 12:45 PM)mishka Wrote:

(October 26, 2022, 12:14 PM)SunWuk0ng Wrote:

(October 26, 2022, 12:03 PM)mishka Wrote: Tor is very privacy friendly, that's why we still use it.

I don't mean using the browser for privacy. I'm talking about if you still use it for access spesific websites that ran only there.

For privacy, you can still use a virtual machine, antidetect browsers with at least 2 VPN layers of protection, and Android emulators and it will be also effective.

So... you would rather use a browser inside an android emulator inside of a virtual machine than to just use the tor browser? I guess your point makes sense but you have to draw the line where the pain outweighs the gain.

Also yes, dread is a good example of something that only runs on tor.

Yes for Telegram/Discord I would prefer to open emulator inside VM
For other purposes I will use antidetect browser (with proxy) inside a VM.  
But yes.. I searched examples such as Dread.. What else?

I use it for search in ransomware sites or just see some new onion link :D

There's nothing special about the "Darknet"; it doesn't really have anything that the clearnet doesn't have. That said, I wish more forums would use it exclusively, since they seem to have a difficult time not getting seized on the clearnet. Also, privacy.

Still use it!