You can only access a .onion site through Tor. To access the Tor network, you need the Tor browser. The Tor browser is modified Mozilla Firefox browser with numerous integrated scripts and add-ons to protect your privacy while browsing onion sites. The Tor browser is preconfigured to connect to the network, and the developers strongly advise not messing around with the browser settings unless you know what you are doing. Adding to that, the 窶很now what you窶决e doing窶・is different to a regular browser, in that altering the Tor browser settings can expose your private browsing data to external sources. Head to the Tor Project site and download the Tor browser (one of many dark web browsers). Head to the download location, find the Tor Browser folder and select Start Tor Browser. The browser immediately checks for updates. If there is an update, apply it.




Google Search indexes the entire internet, one page at a time. Web crawlers (also known as a spider) are internet bots that systematically trawl through internet pages and index the content. Indexed content is found using a search engine. The Tor darknet has similar indexing, though you won窶冲 find those sites through Google. No, you need a special Tor search engine instead. Alternatively, there are numerous sites that curate lists of onion sites, such as The Hidden Wiki, and others that list indexed onion sites, such as the Onion Link List. You must copy and paste the following links into the Tor browser, rather than your regular internet browser.




The Hidden Wiki is a general jumping off point for new darknet visitors. The linked address is correct for 2018. Older mirror versions of The Hidden Wiki exist but feature several outdated sites as well as broken links.





Onion Link List is a Tor directory hosted on Raspberry Pi. Cool, right? (The Raspberry Pi has so many awesome uses!) The Onion Link List is an index directory that gives you a brief site description, the last seen and last tested dates, as well as when the onion site first hit the Tor network.