One of the things that makes the Internet intriguing and, at the same time, disturbing, is the impressive amount of information that a person can access. When you open your browser, there are millions of sites to browse, although most of the time it always happens on them.
This is because to find websites we mainly use Google, which rewards the sites considered influential by placing them at the top of every search and makes other less optimized sites almost impossible to find or that perhaps want to remain hidden, for convenience, for privacy, for secrecy or because deal with reprehensible or illegal topics.
If it is true that a large number of web pages can be accessed from search engines, it is also true that most remain unexplored, difficult to access and hidden.
This hidden internet is known by the name of Darknet, Deepweb, Invisible Web or Hidden Internet and everyone can access it, even if with the necessary precautions and protections.
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The sites that make up the Deep Web are not indexed by Google and other search engines.
The purpose of Darknet is primarily online anonymity.
Anonymity is only necessary to access these sites so that no one can identify the user, not even the site that is accessed.
Not only are these anonymous websites that cannot be traced back to the owner, but also those who visit them must be anonymous and absolutely inaccessible.
They use a network parallel to that of the internet, which uses peer-to-peer technology so that content is not hosted by a central server, but published using non-standard ports and protocols.
Normal browsers cannot open darknet sites whose links end with the .onion extension because they are not normal domain names.
Onion sites have addresses that are impossible to remember, which often change, made up of a string of random characters followed by the suffix .onion (for example, a site may have fafdfsdfvetr.onion as its address).
These names are created and published anonymously using the Tor network and only Onion servers know how to resolve these domain names.
Darknet sites are completely inaccessible unless traffic is routed through an anonymous network such as TOR ( The Onion Router ).
Estimates speak of a Deep Web 500 times larger than the World Wide Web, with more than 200, 0000 sites.
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As it is easy to imagine, even if there is no shortage of useful and informative sites, there are many illegal activities within which it would be better to stay away.
You can find anything from politicians' defense blogs to leaked documents from journalistic espionage and controversial articles from freelance journalists.
However, since this network requires anonymity, it has unfortunately also attracted many unsavory sites, hackers and cyber criminals.
The main recommendation if you want to browse the deep web internet is not to download anything to your computer unless you are sure that they are not viruses or dangerous things.
Contrary to popular belief, accessing Deep Web sites is very simple .
Just download and install Tor Browser, start it and then type in the addresses.
Tor Browser is a modified version of Firefox that automatically connects to the TOR network.
You can therefore browse any site anonymously, hiding the IP address and any connection data, and accessing the .onion sites.
To start, there is a Wiki that explains everything that can be found on the deep web, available at this link //zqktlwi4fecvo6ri.onion/wiki/index.php/Main_Page .
There are also some search engines, such as Torch, at //xmh57jrzrnw6insl.onion/ .
There are also regular sites on the Onion network, such as the Duckduckgo search engine ( //3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/ ) and the Samsung site ( //storegsq3o5mfxiz.onion/ ).
The best search engine of the deepweb is however Onion.city, accessible even without using TOR,
Indeed, recently, Facebook has created its domain on the TOR network for those who want to access the social network completely anonymously, without leaving traces on the Facebook servers.
TOR's Facebook address is https: //facebookcorewwwi.onion/ .
Previously, users could certainly use Tor to connect to the Facebook.com site, but in connecting to the Facebook account it would reveal anomalies by blocking the user, thinking that the account had been hacked.
With the Facebook .onion site, these problems are not there and the connection remains protected and encrypted, preventing hackers, spies or government officials from seeing what is done.
Finally, I would like to specify that the content of this article is for informational and educational purposes only.
Keeping in mind the fundamental guidelines for Internet security, apply them with double attention while browsing the Darknet network and be wary of each website, without revealing your identity to anyone and without downloading files or documents.
There is plenty of offensive, uncensored and illegal content on the darknet, so after trying, I recommend avoiding it.
