I see quite a few posts on this subreddit about people questioning weather or not they should explore the scary dark web. Here is my review.

Is the dark web safe? That depends entirely on your own common sense.

It’s the digital equivalent of wandering into an unlit alley at 3:00 AM. Most sane people stay out. If you decide to stroll down it anyway, whatever happens next is on you.

The aesthetic itself feels like the movie The Backrooms, empty, disjointed, borderline surreal, and full of weird dead-ends that make you wonder why you came here in the first place.

Half the people downloading Tor are driven by sheer, unadulterated paranoia. They genuinely believe a fed at a desk is assigned specifically to monitor Larry watching doomsday prepper tutorials on YouTube, or Kyle googling basic Python exploits on Reddit. The government collects metadata in bulk, sure, but nobody is dedicating field agents to your boring late-night Amazon searches. Not that I personally care about the government watching me buy something on Amazon. I am sure that people will argue against this and try to convince you that it comes down to privacy which I don't find to be a compelling enough argument in most cases.

Then you have the aspiring digital kingpins. These are the self-styled hackers idling in onion chatrooms, flexing about running a basic port scan like they just penetrated NORAD. I kid you not I was in a chatroom the other day and someone was claiming they were close to hacking JP Morgan. Nine out of ten are edgelords furiously competing for the attention of a screen name like BustyGirl_xx who is, without question, a 54-year-old guy named Moe typing from a recliner.

Beyond that circus, you have the actual illicit underbelly: narcotics, stolen credentials, CSAM, and outright contraband, alongside niche weirdos congregating around things that technically aren't crimes yet, but definitely should disqualify you from public office. If you aren't hunting for that garbage, you aren't going to get in trouble.

The day-to-day reality of Tor isn't a slick movie montage; it's a BOG. Speeds crawl, half the links are dead, and the pages look like they were built on Geocities in 1999. (If you don't know what I mean by this then certainly look it up) Unless you're a whistleblower leaking classified files, a journalist evading censors in Belarus, or an actual criminal, there’s no real utility here. If you just want standard privacy, buy a decent VPN and save yourself the headache. If you are considering a VPN, I would suggest MULLVAD. Again, only consider a VPN if you want privacy against your ISP. If you want total anonymity then skip TOR and move to Yellowstone and live off the grid.

That said, if you’re just genuinely curious like I was, go ahead, download it, and poke around for an hour. You'll form your own opinion quickly, mostly that it's vastly overhyped and boring.

I just tested and Tor Browser seems to connect to https://dv-g3b-emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/. If that's the case then its extremely bad because any Tor exit node could currently be intercepting traffic using the leaked certificates (see https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/). Should users be completely avoiding using Tor Browser until that is resolved?

I did some research, some say's its not safe to use some say's its safe. i just want to read some historical documents that doesn't show on a regular browser

Hello, i want to know if there is any way to disarm/disable/pause fortinet when i do not own the device nor have approved access to it. I want to this because my school has blocked chatGPT through fortinet even though they block it with linewize. i would like to use chatGPT to do my Fusion 360 projects (works surprisingly well).

I have experimented with tailsOS on my usb and using a tor bridge i can access whatever i want (insta, tiktok, snap etc) websites that are usually blocked at school. Im wondering if i can implement that tor bridge to a linux distro thats ubuntu or debian based and be able to open desktop apps that fortinet otherwise blocks.

Tailscale and proton both work very rarely and inconsistently

I have already jailbroken my school laptop with a regular windows 11, school windows 11 and a fedora triple boot set up (not the point but might help)

i need to find a way around the wifi restrictions and i cannot rely heavily on vpns due to fortinet blocking most of them. And yes the easiest solution is to hotspot but i would love to find a way around it.

Please let me know if theres anything i can actually do about fortinet or please tell me if its not possible so i dont do anything too illegal

Thanks!

I just get many warnings that there is a virus on my laptop when I'm using it normally. Is the virus also on my laptop when tails is used? Am I fucked?

Sorry I dont know much about computers and IT. Im kinda scared. I haven't opened my laptop since my friend used it.