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Is there such a thing as a "Tor hidden website"?
You're right in some ways, but wrong on many key details.
Tor is not simply a browser:
Through Tor Browser is a product of the Tor Project, it is not itself Tor. Tor is the piece of software that ...
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Tor no longer works on sites that want to block it
Yes - the surrounding details about this are desribed in the General FAQ
You should hide the list of Tor relays, so people can't block the exits.
There are a few reasons we don't:
We can't help but ...
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Editing Wikipedia on Tor without creating an account?
Setting up an account on Wikipedia does not necessarily lead to pseudonomymizing. The idea behind that is not to link your account to your real ID, but rather to link your account to your behavior on ...
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Why will myfigurecollection.net not load properly in Tor browser?
Because their CDN, s1.tsuki-board.net, blocks Tor connections with a captcha.
Theoretically if you visit http://s1.tsuki-board.net alone and solve the captcha, you should have the home site working. ...
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Does deepnet have only 7100 onion sites?
Your calculation is not fully correct. The hidden service address is encoded in Base32, which means there are 32 characters available. So there are 32^16=1.208925819614629174706176×10^24 addresses ...
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Add an exit proxy to Tor
This is not currently supported by Tor or the Tor Browser. You will most likely have to come up with a solution yourself. A workaround might be pointing Tor Browser at your proxychained Tor.
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Can't access my hidden service
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:6666
Listen 127.0.0.1:6666
Your server listens to port 6666 ..
HiddenServicePort 6666 127.0.0.1:7777
.. but your Tor tries to connect to 7777
You should change your ...
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How to easily verify certificates on .onion versions of clearnet sites?
[waves] Facebook-over-Tor-geek here. It's a toughie, the cleanest thing is to use the same SSL certificate in your clearnet and onion sites, but this only will work if you can use EV certificates on ...
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Does deepnet have only 7100 onion sites?
7100 sounds about right for the number of hidden web services that are up at any given time. It actually sounds a bit high.
The 30K from Tor metrics are the aggregate data from HSDirs. The fact that ...
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windows program "webroot" blocks access to tor download
There is a thread on the Webroot forums about this, and here's an official answer from December 2015:
Hello everyone,
I just got off the phone with one of our team members that handles this ...
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Tor Search Engine? is there any Tor2web search engines in clearnet?
I prefer Bullmask search engine. Personally I'm using this tor search engine for tor2web. This site has a neat interface and those onion results are like google SERP. Also, you don't need tor browser ...
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How don't websites easily get your IP through this method?
How would you propose this JavaScript code obtain the client's IP address?
JS running in web browsers cannot run arbitrary commands on the host machine — that would be an extreme security violation.
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Does the Tor browser save cached versions of .onion sites to computer?
The Tor Browser is designed to avoid writing any sensitive data to disk unless the user changes the default settings to enable a feature that does record sensitive data. So with the default settings, ...
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Are .onion sites also written in HTML?
Building onion websites is generally no different than building regular websites. The main difference is the underlying connection protocol and not the website itself. You build onion websites using ...
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Website not working in Tor
The website is blocking connections from Tor exit relays. There's not much you can do to get around it while using Tor. You can try using new circuits until you get a circuit with an exit relay that ...
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how to find onion websites?
https://www.reddit.com/r/onions/ has a large number of them. Make sure to read the sidebar for a list of search engines. You can find all contributed onion services here.
The Tor project's own onion ...
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Is there guarantee of privacy to buy onion hosting?
But traditionally for a regular non-onion site we usually buy hosting.
Can I buy hosting for a onion site?
Absolutely! You can pay for a VPS or a managed server or even co-locate your own server.
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viewing files on local machine via tor browser
This is probably going to be based more on how your OS works but I will try to answer the question.
First, the easy one. In Firefox or any other normal browser, you can go to file:/// to browse your ...
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Problem visiting a website
The problem is in NoScript addon which is installed in TOR Browser. You can temporary enable Java Script in the site in order to use the full features of the site.
In the following picture, I've ...
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Exclude specific site from using TOR
Yes... Two ways.
Since on most installs, only the TorBrowser goes through Tor, just open google in chrome.
If you don't like [1] you could install FoxyProxy and configure a rule to bypass the Tor ...
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Why am I getting ads by Google
This site and many others show advertisement. The task of Tor Browser is to make sure that those sites can't access your information. So they can't access cookies which come from other tabs or ...
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How this website see Real location?
I tested right now ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) and the website just appear the exit node location, are you sure your connection did not coincidentally fall into an exit-node of your own country?
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Why do I see the hidden service directory in my browser?
The configuration of your Tor Onion Service and of your webserver are two separate things. When you want to start a Tor Onion Service you
configure your webserver. That especially means set up a ...
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Preview site content safely
You could simply try searching for the address on a search engine that indexes .onions which should give you an idea of what the site is about.
If that doesn't work:
Since your concern seems to be ...
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Can .onion website owner see visitor IP address connecting using TOR network?
If everything is working as intended, then NO, the .onion website owner Cannot see a visitor IP address. Most leaks, such as from insecure plugins would be unable to reveal your IP to a .onion site ...
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How to sign a petition on a website with Tor (undisplayed button)
The site seems broken, accidentally. The way it's using Cloudflare breaks it for any IP that has some high "risk" score in their listing (I.E. any that would be prompted with a captcha before ...
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Orfox won't load pages
Don't know if it's related, but the same issue seems to happen to me sometines. Simply changing identity works for me, tapping the round arrow in the notification or restarting orbot. Hope this helps
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Noticed an outdated instruction in Tor documentation site, how to correct it?
Take a look at the Contact page.
Your best bet would probably either be the IRC channel, or to Tweet them.
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Does Tor block network administrators from determining sites accessed/data downloaded?
If they're only looking at your network traffic then they would know you are using Tor.
They wouldn't be able to know what your traffic contained or where it was sent to or received from but they ...
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