# How can I access the deep dark web?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 16, 2018, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917 "2018-02-16T06:50:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Yabsnjma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yabsnjma)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/1 "2018-02-16T06:50:05Z")
I have been trying to access the deep dark web & still confuse d on how to get there.can somebody help me please?
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### Author:  [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/2 "2018-02-16T07:00:36Z")
“Deep dark” indicates that the material in question is not indexed by search engines. Therefore, you need to know the name of the site so that you might search for a link.
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### Author:  [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/3 "2018-02-16T09:18:08Z")
Have you tries [ddw.com](http://ddw.com)?
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### Author:  [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/4 "2018-02-16T09:36:28Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#):
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> Have you tries [ddw.com](http://ddw.com)?
Yeah, looks like a site about brand designing.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/5 "2018-02-16T11:47:53Z")
First, access [these](https://www.wired.com/2015/06/dark-web-know-myth/) [articles](https://gizmodo.com/the-deep-web-is-mostly-full-of-garbage-1786857267). Second, stop getting your ideas from bad TV dramas.
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### Author:  [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/6 "2018-02-16T14:14:35Z")
[Torproject.org](http://Torproject.org), download the Tor Browser, profit!
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### Author:  [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/7 "2018-02-16T14:17:50Z")
The pit :eek:
[https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=5](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=5)
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### Author:  [@Turble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turble)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/8 "2018-02-16T14:20:30Z")
After you’ve installed the Tor browser do a search for ‘uncensored hidden wiki’ for some starting points. There are fake versions of the hidden wiki so you might have to try more than one or check out reddit for a recent listing.
Expect long connection times and many dead links.
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### Author:  [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/9 "2018-02-16T14:35:35Z")
> [@Turble](#):
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> After you’ve installed the Tor browser do a search for ‘uncensored hidden wiki’ for some starting points.
Why would one need to install Tor before searching for “uncensored hidden wiki”? I thought Tor was just a way to hopelessly obfuscate who you are.
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### Author:  [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/10 "2018-02-16T14:37:06Z")
Many dead links is something of an understatement. My experience is that 8 or 9 out of 10 links you click on the hidden wikis will be defunct. One needs dedication or good luck to find anything interesting in that wilderness of onions. The Tor browser makes it easy to search but the stuff you do find is mostly BS (you’d be a fool to take the hit man for hire or drug sales seriously. The Silk Road is long dead.)
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### Author:  [@Turble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turble)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/11 "2018-02-16T14:46:06Z")
> [@CurtC](#):
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> Why would one need to install Tor before searching for “uncensored hidden wiki”? I thought Tor was just a way to hopelessly obfuscate who you are.
No need to install Tor, just install the Tor browser. You need it to access the .onion links in the wiki.
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### Author:  [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/12 "2018-02-16T14:56:27Z")
It sounds like a neighborhood I don’t really want to visit. 😕
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/13 "2018-02-16T15:19:51Z")
**Moderator Note**
Just as a reminder, from the Registration Agreement:
> [@](#):
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> You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use the SDMB to post any material that you know or should know is … in violation of U.S. law. You agree not to post material that in our opinion encourages activity that is illegal in the U.S.
To the best of my knowledge, use of TOR or accessing the dark web per se is not in itself illegal, (Correct me if I am wrong.) However, they frequently may be used for illegal activities. So let’s avoid specifics of how to conduct illegal activity. I’m leaving this open for now but may close it if it becomes problematic.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/14 "2018-02-16T16:08:15Z")
It’s hardly surprising that dead links are so common. After all, if you can find a site, then so can the folks who want that site to be shut down. And it’s impossible to completely obfuscate where a site is hosted, because after all, your data packets have to make their way there somehow. So if an enforcer finds a live site, and puts in the effort, it will very quickly become a dead site. And then will probably crop up again somewhere else, and the cycle continues.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/15 "2018-02-16T16:44:53Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> It’s hardly surprising that dead links are so common.
You can help clean up these dead links by notifying those in charge. Email your dead links to admin@deepdarkweb
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### Author:  [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/16 "2018-02-16T16:47:34Z")
You can go to Reddit and search for “dark web” and there are a number of sub-reddits discussing very aspects of it.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/17 "2018-02-16T17:16:34Z")
> [@PastTense](#):
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> You can go to Reddit and search for “dark web” and there are a number of sub-reddits discussing very aspects of it.
Also a few discussing somewhat aspects of it.
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### Author:  [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/18 "2018-02-16T17:29:54Z")
> [@Colibri](#):
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> **Moderator Note**
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> Just as a reminder, from the Registration Agreement:
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> To the best of my knowledge, use of TOR or accessing the dark web per se is not in itself illegal, (Correct me if I am wrong.) However, they frequently may be used for illegal activities. So let’s avoid specifics of how to conduct illegal activity. I’m leaving this open for now but may close it if it becomes problematic.
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> Colibri
> General Questions Moderator
Your a good moderator Colibri … at some point in time reading all of this stuff must be hard on your noggin :eek:
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### Author:  [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/19 "2018-02-16T17:33:58Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> You can help clean up these dead links by notifying those in charge. Email your dead links to admin@deepdarkweb
Is that gonna be a .com or do they have their own suffix?
.ddw maybe? 🙂
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/20 "2018-02-16T17:35:39Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> Also a few discussing somewhat aspects of it.
Ok, I lol’d. Woke the dog.
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