Patnou comments on 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.

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)

submitted 6 months ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to c/explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world

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[–] Patnou@lemmy.world [S] 5 points 6 months ago (3 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?

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[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

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

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 months 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.

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 months ago

Nothing to do with torrents at all.

https://www.torproject.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)

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