/lounge/ - Lounge

>>322550
It's really not esoteric or dangerous like some people (retards) think it is.
https://old.reddit.com/r/onions/

>>322550
>So wizzies who are familiar with this stuff
I 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 sites
You 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.

>>322552
>vpn thing
And if you're curious, now many sites also have other ways of screwing you over if you use a VPN, stopping you and asking you to remove the VPN. Although I no longer use a VPN except for the usual reasons like a pornhub telling whatever my country bleh bleh (not even that anymore, because it's now normal to be stopped before entering some site because of the VPN but i dont know if still work with pornhub)
At most, I used it to get around the download limit of mega when it still worked back in time lol
>Also
I guess the Chinese still use these things because of their firewall. I don't know much about the history now, other than what I read from anons or what I might have read if I went on Reddit a couple of times.

>>322551
Thanks, just what I was looking for more or less.

>>322552
>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.
I read that people recommend using some specially made OS to hide yourself better, I have Windows 10 so yeah, this sounds too much effort to me.

I just want to browse some interesting sites without worrying about getting some virus or the cops breaking down my door for clicking on a picture/video I shouldn't have. Though I guess that is part of the fun of surfing the darknet too, a feeling of danger and total freedom.

Unfortunately, I'm not some tech computer wiz, quite clueless about these things.

I liked browsing on Tor around 2014-2016. There were many communities whose users were interesting, if somewhat insane. Nowadays, however, everything seems to have died out. There is really no reason to use it anymore, except to search for illegal stuff.

Store addresses just in case:
http://lambdaplusjs35padjaiz4jw2fugdoeutse262phqr72uf634s2wdbqd.onion
http://nanochanrayhy7nuuhldw2n4sq7tmv7xzdwaxtbptetss5eaznwfknyd.onion

>>322556
I've been thinking it would be a good idea to have a box with no ssd running a tails USB to use for browsing hidden service forums and imageboards while making it more difficult for people to see what you're doing tbh. Clearnet seems kind of gay these days

>>322552
How do you even come across new websites nowadays? Seems like whenever I google anything I just get endless AI articles.

>>322618
Then stop Googling things. There are other search engines and other ways to find websites.

>>322619
#2

maybe 2026 will be the year where you finally begin to question google and look for alternatives.

google used to be great to find information you were looking for when it first began but now google is great in not showing you what you were looking for and instead show you whoever paid them most in this insane militarily protected digital conveyor belt of consumerism.

whatever you are looking for is of secondary concern to google, they are more interested in showing you what the customers paid for you to see, you have to get that in your head. there has been an auction for your attention and you are not getting served search results that best answer your query. you get search results that best represent the wishes of the customers. stop being an idiot.

>>322555
>I have Windows 10 so yeah, this sounds too much effort to me.

nobody made this explicit to me when i started ~5 years ago but linux is way better.

just now after many years i started using command line tools and it is just way better then this graphical nonsense. i download video with command line, i cut video with command line and now whenever i want to learn how to so something, first i check if this can be done in command line. nobody told me how much better this is so i am telling you.