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Tor Network

The Tor network and its features, such as rendezvous protocol and exit nodes.

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Jan 17, 2026
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Onion chat room

Onion chat rooms are real-time messaging services hosted as Tor onion services that aim to provide anonymity and encrypted connections between participants, with implementations ranging from simple On...

Jan 12, 2026
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What is the dark onion market and how does it operate?

The “dark onion market” is shorthand for darknet marketplaces hosted as Tor “.onion” hidden services where buyers and sellers trade goods and services—often illegal—pseudonymously, using layered encry...

Jan 28, 2026
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How effective is Brave’s Tor private window compared with using Tor Browser end-to-end?

’s “” routes traffic through the but intentionally omits many of the browser-level hardening and anti- that provides, so it offers partial anonymity for casual use but is not a drop-in substitute for ...

Jan 29, 2026

What specific fingerprinting protections does Tor Browser implement that Brave’s Tor window omits?

purposefully implements a suite of aggressive, deterministic anti‑ measures — font and language normalization, user‑agent and OS spoofing, screen‑size “bucketing” with letterboxing, and active‑vector ...

Feb 7, 2026

How does using DuckDuckGo’s onion service via Tor differ technically from using DuckDuckGo over standard HTTPS?

Using ’s official .onion address inside changes where trust and routing end: a connection to the onion service remains entirely within Tor and uses the onion address’s built‑in public‑key identity, wh...

Jan 8, 2026

How does tor work?

Tor is a volunteer-run overlay network and browser that aims to obscure who is talking to whom on the Internet by routing traffic through multiple relays and encrypting it in layers — the technique kn...