It’s mostly a bunch of sites where you can buy drugs, porn, hits, etc. You have to disable JavaScript because it’s so full of scams that try to steal any crypto you want to spend.
There are also FBI honeypots to fall into… it’s really not that exciting or worth visiting unless you want to buy drugs for cheap with the possibility of being tracked or scammed.
The risk is that you don’t know what you are doing, don’t know what you are looking at, don’t know who you are engaging with, and probably won’t know what’s happening if something’s happening to you. Doesn’t mean something will. But if you go looking for trouble (and why else would you go there), chances are it will find you.
There is no big risk. Looking at stuff isn’t illegal unless it’s CP or something like that. You just gotta know where you go and what you do. Don’t put your data out there. Nothing that connects to you and don’t input anything with money like banking information or crypto.
Then you should be safe. I recommend disabling JavaScript in Tor so you get less scam pop-ups and other annoying things.
I wouldn’t go on there there’s a lot of horrific content. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you could get doxxed, hacked, scammed, or even end up in legal trouble (especially if you try to buy something). I’ve heard horror stories about people going missing after visiting the dark web. I highly doubt they’re true, but you never know.
The dark web is said to contain illegal pornography, gore, torture videos/livestreams, drugs, weapons, stolen and fake IDs, stolen goods for sale, cannibal forums, and much more. In my opinion, the risks far outweigh any potential benefit especially if you’re inexperienced or mentally unprepared. I strongly recommend staying away.
(For context, I haven’t been on the dark web myself, but my friends and my brother have, and this is what they’ve told me.)
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It’s mostly a bunch of sites where you can buy drugs, porn, hits, etc. You have to disable JavaScript because it’s so full of scams that try to steal any crypto you want to spend.
There are also FBI honeypots to fall into… it’s really not that exciting or worth visiting unless you want to buy drugs for cheap with the possibility of being tracked or scammed.
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The risk is that you don’t know what you are doing, don’t know what you are looking at, don’t know who you are engaging with, and probably won’t know what’s happening if something’s happening to you. Doesn’t mean something will. But if you go looking for trouble (and why else would you go there), chances are it will find you.
There is no big risk. Looking at stuff isn’t illegal unless it’s CP or something like that. You just gotta know where you go and what you do. Don’t put your data out there. Nothing that connects to you and don’t input anything with money like banking information or crypto.
Then you should be safe. I recommend disabling JavaScript in Tor so you get less scam pop-ups and other annoying things.
I wouldn’t go on there there’s a lot of horrific content. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you could get doxxed, hacked, scammed, or even end up in legal trouble (especially if you try to buy something). I’ve heard horror stories about people going missing after visiting the dark web. I highly doubt they’re true, but you never know.
The dark web is said to contain illegal pornography, gore, torture videos/livestreams, drugs, weapons, stolen and fake IDs, stolen goods for sale, cannibal forums, and much more. In my opinion, the risks far outweigh any potential benefit especially if you’re inexperienced or mentally unprepared. I strongly recommend staying away.
(For context, I haven’t been on the dark web myself, but my friends and my brother have, and this is what they’ve told me.)