# How can I access the deep dark web? **URL:** \ **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:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/21 "2018-02-16T18:02:48Z")
Beyond usual domains, if the link to a site is something.onion, you can access it via the Tor Browser Bundle. If it is something.i2p, you need to download and run the i2p bundle; similarly for Freenet, GNUnet, et cetera. But the real question is how you get the link in the first place; as **Chronos** explains, if a site shows up on a search engine or a wiki, it is ipso facto not a part of the deep, dark web, no matter how many technical hoops one must jump through in order to access it. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917/22 "2018-02-16T18:03:07Z")
> [@CurtC](#): > > 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. Because there are what TOR calls hidden services, or machines you can only access via the TOR protocol. These include websites, email servers, IRC chat, and other services. These services are hidden because it’s impossible to figure out where in the world they are just by accessing them over TOR. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-access-the-deep-dark-web/808917.md?page=1)