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Onion sites legitimacy

Onion sites are legitimate technical services hosted on the Tor network that provide anonymity and are used by trusted organizations as well as criminals.

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How do .onion (hidden service) addresses prevent exit-node exposure compared to HTTPS?

.onion addresses (Tor onion services) keep client and server traffic inside the Tor overlay so there is no traditional “exit” hop that can observe plaintext or IP endpoints, unlike standard HTTPS over...