>>322550>So wizzies who are familiar with this stuffI don't use it. to be honest, I don't know much about computers, the internet, programming, or telecommunications etc.
>is it worth the time and effort?I tried it once to see what it was like, but I lost interest because I could use a simple free VPN to bypass filters on certain sites, and it was faster (the shit was damn slow and Tor sometimes make you safe from sites with a lot of pishing or cookies trolling or just got breaking the code or something, its absurd the amount of date-info steal that are in common sites no onion related)
It seems that now some or maybe a lot Tor sites are being trolled by Cloudflare. Although I'm sure they still have links to other sites somewhere, I'm not really interested.
>From what I've read most of the darknet or darkweb or wtf is just dead sitesYou can use Wibi org if you just want to search old sites (without the ilegal things part yet)
or archive web or archive org for dead sites simulation in web.
>As someone who is just curious and want to pass the time, is it worth the risk of checking out? How do you even find stuff there? WHAT IS EVEN THERE? What are your experiences with it?I read somewhere that it's best to simulate another OS on your PC to avoid risks, although Tor no longer works on Windows XP, 7, I think 8 and 9, and maybe 10. So I don't know.
If you want some advice (from another anon i read years go), I was told to avoid European countries and USA, dont use them because these glow a lot in the dark.
>is it worth the risk of checking out?I don't know, I don't have interest all the things i want are in some common sites or with less google control with their html
safe sites motif (its a lie of google sometimes you know)
I've heard that there are sites that share links to other sites, but they're actually fake and designed to trick unsuspecting users so that scammers or random people can steal your data and stuff like that lol.
Honestly, at this point, anything that isn't the public internet, like social media or junk thrown into AI, and that has Cloudflare messing with you even though it has a filter to prevent you from entering, sounds like the darknet to me.
Except for forums or imageboards, which Google removes from the index, I guess, and yes excluding, of course, sites that are outside the normal internet line and are accessed in other ways, such as IRC, Usenet, and others.