Questions tagged [clear-net]
Clearnet applies to any outside service on the regular Internet that might be accessed by hidden services. Prime example is how Silk Road got busted by using clearnet to access Captcha service, which disclosed the actual server IP address in Iceland
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Tor-friendly web-hosting providers with free TLS certificates and custom DNS?
Do they exist? I want to make a clearnet website anonymously and now I need to get a hosting provider and all of those available reject account registrations over tor such as Github pages, vercel and ...
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would this break onion security? serving clearnet resources from an onion site to force visitors to go through exit nodes
i read in another post "Onion services do not use exits and are end-to-end encrypted. They don't need HTTPS for its encryption and its impossible for connections to be man-in-the-middled."
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Does using a hidden service mirror of a clearnet site improve the privacy/anonymity of the user (generally)?
Some clearnet sites are also available as hidden services such as DuckDuckGo, Ahmia, and Z-Library. Would using their Tor hidden service instead of their clearnet website increase your privacy/...
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Why does having a second non-Tor browser open compromise your anonymity on Tor?
Using Tor by itself gives anonymity, but I heard that you must avoid opening a clearnet web browser at the same time as Tor otherwise it can leak your identity.
Why and how does the second browser ...
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What's the difference between darknet, clearnet and hidden services?
Hidden services and darknet seem to be conjoined concepts, although distinct as the former seems to be a feature of the latter, not vice versa. But the description of the "clearnet" tag ...
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What type of search engine is DuckDuckGo?
I've always been told DuckDuckGo is a clearnet search engine. However, in some of my recent searches on researching onion services I've managed to get search results with an onion service URL. I've ...
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Only use Tor for .onion requests (direct clearnet access)
Is there a way to configure the Tor Browser (or its alternative) to send clearnet requests directly, while retaining the ability to connect to .onion sites? Of course, in this scenario, I couldn't ...
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Two(sometimes 3) leading definitions of Darknet/Deep web nomenclature?
In my experience there seems to different leading definitions of darknet/deep web. The first,
Deep Web is private places on the clearnet, such as DMs
Darknet is Tor's network in general
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Are '.onion' websites safer/better than 'normal' clearnet websites like '.com'?
This might is a bad question, but I'm using Tor to still access clearnet websites like duckduckgo.com and since there is also an onion version, here's my question:
Is there a difference between using ...
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Configuring my website with both a clearnet and a onion address
I am running a wordpress blog and in the clear net and I want for it to be accessible from Tor as well. Kinda like how Facebook has both a normal and a onion address.
I have read the one way to do ...
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make a TOR url act like Alias in DNS
I have a onion domain private key and registered a clearnet website hosting on namecheap.com
Now I want to make the onion domain work like alias to the clearnet url like the Alias DNS record.
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is it ok to connect to regular websites (clearnet) with tor but still be anonymous
I am new to tor and tails os and I can't find anything about if it is safe to connect to regular websites, ex go to Reddit.com but still be anonymous (not logging in an account)
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How to start graphical software on Tails?
The Firefox web browser is the only graphical software on Tails the user "clearnet" can start, or? If not, how?
PS: I know that to run software under the user "clearnet" is stupid, but ….
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Visiting Clearnet websites using Tor Browser
Does using the Tor Browser to visit Clearnet websites provide more privacy than visiting the same Clearnet websites using retail Firefox?
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What are ClearClick and ABE?
I'm new to Tor. What is Application Boundaries Enforcer (ABE) and ClearClick and why should I have them turned on or off?
Thanks!
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Are there proxies like Tor2Web but not just for http connections?
Tor2Web allows access to Hidden services from clearnet. However I would like to know if there some other gateways which will allow connections to hidden services on custom port and allows different ...
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Hidden Service Communication with clear net
If a hidden service has to communicate with the clear net but doesnt want to either appear to be coming from a known tor exit and masking its true IP what would be the best way to achieve something ...
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How block clearnet in Tor browser?
Some .onion websites contain clearnet links which sends you to https (or http) websites. I understood that https/http is lesser anonymous than .onion. How can I block in Tor browser all links that ...
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Does hosting a Tor hidden service also on clearnet DNS reduce privacy/security for the Tor user?
I am wondering about the anonymity and security differences in visiting an .onion site, from the user's perspective, between one that is ONLY a hidden service, and one that also points the same ...
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Can I use Tor for clients that are connected via OpenVPN?
Basically I have OpenVPN server and I would like to configure it so that clients that connect to OpenVPN are then connected to the Tor network on the server are able to browse hidden services and ...
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