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This is a thread to aggregate links for websites on alternative networks like Tor, and also to discuss how to use them.
Tor
Tor (onion link) is a network running atop the Internet consisting of volunteer run nodes that send end-to-end encrypted traffic through them. The design of the network makes it much harder (but not impossible) to detect who is connecting to what.
Tor Browser
Tor Browser is the browser most people use with Tor. It's very easy to set up (download link on the tor website). It just werks and will route all traffic through the tor network when you use it. It also has advanced setup options if your connection is monitored for tor accesses.
Tor Browser is designed to make each user as similar as possible to each other, to fool malicious sites attempting to deanonymize you.
Other Browsers (Brave, Tor Daemon, etc.)
Tor Browser is not the only way to browse Tor. Any program can be made to connect over tor with the tor daemon. Other web browsers like Brave have Tor modes as well. If you care about protecting your identity from the website you are using, you should only use the Tor Browser. If you don't care about browser fingerprinting and only care about connecting to Tor then you can use whatever you want.
Phones
You can browse Tor on Android (Google Play Store) and iOS.
Tor Hidden Services
You can connect to standard Internet domain names using Tor, but there is a possible security risk in that the last link in the chain can read and possibly spoof data to you if your connection is not HTTPS. In addition, domain names can be seized or revoked (see Namecheap revoking Russian domains, the drama with the Kiwi Farms domain after Byuu "died", and Cloudflare seizing kiwifarms.net). This is where hidden services come in. Hidden services are websites operating over Tor with names that look like gibberish with a ".onion" at the end. These domain names contain the information required to send encrypted communcations to the website at hand, without the Domain Name System as a middle-man. All connections to .onion domains are end-to-end encrypted, and they cannot be revoked.
Onion services (may) improve both the speed of your connection and the Tor network as a whole because they do not use exit nodes.
List of Tor Hidden Services
The point of this is to list well-known, stable hidden services or hidden services that are particularly useful to people who want to start using Tor more often. It's not comprehensive and doesn't cover every hidden service I know. If you want to explore smaller hidden services, look at the "directories" section.
Kiwi Farms Related
Decentralized Services
Hidden Service Directories
Software
Cryptocurrencies
Exercise caution when dealing with money over Tor. If you get scammed you have almost 0 recourse.
News
Misc
Nitter, Invidious, Teddit, etc.
Nitter, Invidious, and Teddit are services that proxy connections to Twitter, Youtube, and Reddit (respectively). They strip out all of the shit you don't need (tracking and bloat) so you can browse them easily. Many of these services are hosted as hidden services:
Other Projects
There are other projects similar to Tor in various ways, like I2P and Freenet. There are also some that are focused less on privacy and more on some other aspect of decentralization, like IPFS. I don't use any of these so if anyone has any info feel free to post.
Tor
Tor (onion link) is a network running atop the Internet consisting of volunteer run nodes that send end-to-end encrypted traffic through them. The design of the network makes it much harder (but not impossible) to detect who is connecting to what.
Tor Browser
Tor Browser is the browser most people use with Tor. It's very easy to set up (download link on the tor website). It just werks and will route all traffic through the tor network when you use it. It also has advanced setup options if your connection is monitored for tor accesses.
Tor Browser is designed to make each user as similar as possible to each other, to fool malicious sites attempting to deanonymize you.
Other Browsers (Brave, Tor Daemon, etc.)
Tor Browser is not the only way to browse Tor. Any program can be made to connect over tor with the tor daemon. Other web browsers like Brave have Tor modes as well. If you care about protecting your identity from the website you are using, you should only use the Tor Browser. If you don't care about browser fingerprinting and only care about connecting to Tor then you can use whatever you want.
Phones
You can browse Tor on Android (Google Play Store) and iOS.
Tor Hidden Services
You can connect to standard Internet domain names using Tor, but there is a possible security risk in that the last link in the chain can read and possibly spoof data to you if your connection is not HTTPS. In addition, domain names can be seized or revoked (see Namecheap revoking Russian domains, the drama with the Kiwi Farms domain after Byuu "died", and Cloudflare seizing kiwifarms.net). This is where hidden services come in. Hidden services are websites operating over Tor with names that look like gibberish with a ".onion" at the end. These domain names contain the information required to send encrypted communcations to the website at hand, without the Domain Name System as a middle-man. All connections to .onion domains are end-to-end encrypted, and they cannot be revoked.
Onion services (may) improve both the speed of your connection and the Tor network as a whole because they do not use exit nodes.
List of Tor Hidden Services
The point of this is to list well-known, stable hidden services or hidden services that are particularly useful to people who want to start using Tor more often. It's not comprehensive and doesn't cover every hidden service I know. If you want to explore smaller hidden services, look at the "directories" section.
Kiwi Farms Related
- Kiwi Farms: http://kiwifarmsaaf4t2h7gc3dfc5ojhmqruw2nit3uejrpiagrxeuxiyxcyd.onion (previous)
The website you're on right now. Goes down when there's a DDOS attack (aka quite often). - Unofficial Kiwi Farms Status Page: http://qerp5bcev3x47y25k3i4mod32cdzbgtl6twmv7f53tq3phgfbtmcuhqd.onion/
Run by @TheSkoomer - Kiwi Farms Git: kiwigitlhgg7bgbg67m4gsiee5h35qrucllxofiyzm4ziavqocr7emqd.onion/ (Dead)
- Kiwi Farms Fediverse Node: http://kiwipl54nzv7ddqoowxm7iwg7f6rzp5j6enfdx6afjq2hsik3exxjbyd.onion (Broken)
Decentralized Services
- Poast: http://6x7g7rr6fhdoszolkqkaittdr6qzgejjxoc42q4ceaph2xttmo5vgryd.onion
Fediverse instance like kiwifarms.cc, but even more racist - Ryona Agency: ryonagujouss6tp6tpuxdjonaetk24b4ksekvkktnwxutq2m3mhhu5qd.onion
Free Speech fediverse instance. - SearX Instances: http://searxspbitokayvkhzhsnljde7rqmn7rvoga6e4waeub3h7ug3nghoad.onion
Directory of SearX instances, a search engine that uses other search engines on your behalf. Lists some websites that have hidden services but most are regular domains. - Lets Decentralize: http://xanthexikes7btjqlkakrxjf546rze2n4ftnqzth6qk52jdgrf6jwpqd.onion/
Informational website about decentralized internet systems, from Tor to git. Updated fairly regularly. - Cock.li Website: rurcblzhmdk22kttfkel2zduhyu3r6to7knyc7wiorzrx5gw4c3lftad.onion
/g/ approved email. Currently invite only, but if you have an account you can check them with the webmail. - Protonmail: https://protonmailrmez3lotccipshtkleegetolb73fuirgj7r4o4vfu7ozyd.onion/
- Cock.li Webmail, IMAP, XMPP, SMTP: xdkriz6cn2avvcr2vks5lvvtmfojz2ohjzj4fhyuka55mvljeso2ztqd.onion
Use this if you want to access your emails over Tor. Advertised to work with SMTP/IMAP, so you can also use an email client connected over Tor.
Hidden Service Directories
- Lets Decentralize: http://xanthexikes7btjqlkakrxjf546rze2n4ftnqzth6qk52jdgrf6jwpqd.onion/rollcall/tor.html
Big list of Tor hidden services. Non-partisan and minimally curated (no markets, no CP). If you want to find blogs or other smaller websites, this is a good jumping-off point. - Daniel's Onion List: http://donionsixbjtiohce24abfgsffo2l4tk26qx464zylumgejukfq2vead.onion/
I can't vouch for how good this list is, but someone linked it in another thread. - Ahima: http://juhanurmihxlp77nkq76byazcldy2hlmovfu2epvl5ankdibsot4csyd.onion/
Tor Search Engine.
Software
- Debian: http://jvgypgbnfyvfopg5msp6nwr2sl2fd6xmnguq35n7rfkw3yungjn2i4yd.onion/
The Linux distro. The link above is a directory for many of the subdomains that the Debian project uses. It's also possible to set up Debian to update only through Tor. - Linux Packages Mirror: http://lysator7eknrfl47rlyxvgeamrv7ucefgrrlhk7rouv3sna25asetwid.onion/
Website that mirrors packages for various Linux distros. You can use this to update your Linux distro over Tor. - Whoonix: http://www.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onion/
Privacy centered virtual machine setup. - Qubes: http://qubesosfasa4zl44o4tws22di6kepyzfeqv3tg4e3ztknltfxqrymdad.onion/
Privacy centered Linux Distro. - Brave: https://brave4u7jddbv7cyviptqjc7jusxh72uik7zt6adtckl5f4nwy2v72qd.onion/
Our beloved admin's browser of choice. - Brave Search: https://search.brave4u7jddbv7cyviptqjc7jusxh72uik7zt6adtckl5f4nwy2v72qd.onion/
- Duckduckgo: https://duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad.onion
- The Pirate Bay: piratebayo3klnzokct3wt5yyxb2vpebbuyjl7m623iaxmqhsd52coid.onion
Yarr harr fiddly dee, being a pirate is alright with me - Tor Project Directory: http://xao2lxsmia2edq2n5zxg6uahx6xox2t7bfjw6b5vdzsxi7ezmqob6qid.onion
All Tor Project domains can be accessed over Tor. You can download the Tor source code or look at Tor's documentation using this.
Cryptocurrencies
Exercise caution when dealing with money over Tor. If you get scammed you have almost 0 recourse.
- Bisq Wiki: http://s3p666he6q6djb6u3ekjdkmoyd77w63zq6gqf6sde54yg6bdfqukz2qd.onion/Main_Page
Wiki of Bisq, a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange. - Monero: http://monerotoruzizulg5ttgat2emf4d6fbmiea25detrmmy7erypseyteyd.onion/
Monero is a cryptocurrency designed for anonymity and CPU mining. - Feather (Monero Wallet): http://featherdvtpi7ckdbkb2yxjfwx3oyvr3xjz3oo4rszylfzjdg6pbm3id.onion
- Agoradesk: http://2jopbxfi2mrw6pfpmufm7smacrgniglr7a4raaila3kwlhlumflxfxad.onion/nojs/
Market to buy and sell Bitcoin for real money. - LocalMonero: http://2jopbxfi2mrw6pfpmufm7smacrgniglr7a4raaila3kwlhlumflxfxad.onion/nojs/
Market to buy and sell Monero for real money. Also has articles on how Monero works.
News
- The New York Times: https://www.nytimesn7cgmftshazwhfgzm37qxb44r64ytbb2dj3x62d2lljsciiyd.onion/
Apparently you don't get paywalled if you use the hidden service. - BBC News: https://www.bbcweb3hytmzhn5d532owbu6oqadra5z3ar726vq5kgwwn6aucdccrad.onion/
- The Guardian: www.guardian2zotagl6tmjucg3lrhxdk4dw3lhbqnkvvkywawy3oqfoprid.onion
Misc
- The CIA: http://ciadotgov4sjwlzihbbgxnqg3xiyrg7so2r2o3lt5wz5ypk4sxyjstad.onion/
Glow with confidence. - Archiving website: http://archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrqtkgmcitqx5u2oeqnmn5bpcbiyd.onion/
- Twitter: https://twitter3e4tixl4xyajtrzo62zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion/
- Facebook: https://www.facebookwkhpilnemxj7asaniu7vnjjbiltxjqhye3mhbshg7kx5tfyd.onion/
- @ducktor 's hidden service: http://rsyu5frcrlyrepvvrsolzn6sgvkjoiykqlg7dtl52xtqiyhqtartumad.onion/
- List of chans (kiwi farms tor link)
Browse at your own risk.
Nitter, Invidious, Teddit, etc.
Nitter, Invidious, and Teddit are services that proxy connections to Twitter, Youtube, and Reddit (respectively). They strip out all of the shit you don't need (tracking and bloat) so you can browse them easily. Many of these services are hosted as hidden services:
- Nitter (https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances)
- Invidious (https://docs.invidious.io/Invidious...idious-instances-sorted-from-oldest-to-newest)
- Teddit (https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit)
- Libreddit (like teddit) (https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit)
Other Projects
There are other projects similar to Tor in various ways, like I2P and Freenet. There are also some that are focused less on privacy and more on some other aspect of decentralization, like IPFS. I don't use any of these so if anyone has any info feel free to post.
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