Tor. A serious study of as many .onion sites as I could find. There are many reasons why people want to be anonymous. I don’t know why, I just felt compelled to look at the edges of humanity.
Back in the early 2000s, I heard tell of Freenet, thought it sounded like a cool project, and started poking around there. I soon determined that a lot of the material being exchanged there was not anything I wanted anywhere near my disk, even encrypted. Deleted it pretty darn quick.
I’ve used Freenet multiple times in the early 2000s. I don’t remember anything crazy, I wasn’t looking for it either. Just conspiracy theory, and photos smuggled from North Korea.
Sounds like when I was a kid in middle school around that era and just discovering the wild world of internet porn. Saw girls my age in some of the darker corners of the net back then, and somehow something clicked that I probably shouldn’t be seeing what I was seeing.
Drug dealers, arms dealers, hit men, conspiracy theorists with apparent mental health issues, child porn. I was at least somewhat amused until the last, then it was like, “Yeah no, I’m done with this”
All you need is a copy of TAILS.
Tor. A serious study of as many .onion sites as I could find. There are many reasons why people want to be anonymous. I don’t know why, I just felt compelled to look at the edges of humanity.
Back in the early 2000s, I heard tell of Freenet, thought it sounded like a cool project, and started poking around there. I soon determined that a lot of the material being exchanged there was not anything I wanted anywhere near my disk, even encrypted. Deleted it pretty darn quick.
I’ve used Freenet multiple times in the early 2000s. I don’t remember anything crazy, I wasn’t looking for it either. Just conspiracy theory, and photos smuggled from North Korea.
Sounds like when I was a kid in middle school around that era and just discovering the wild world of internet porn. Saw girls my age in some of the darker corners of the net back then, and somehow something clicked that I probably shouldn’t be seeing what I was seeing.
this would actually be pretty interesting. any details?
Drug dealers, arms dealers, hit men, conspiracy theorists with apparent mental health issues, child porn. I was at least somewhat amused until the last, then it was like, “Yeah no, I’m done with this” All you need is a copy of TAILS.
yeah, ouch. my condolences to your humanity. :-(
If there is a credible global survey of .onion sites available (with content statistics), I would definitely be interested in it.
I am not aware of any such.
I’m almost afraid to ask, but what did you find?🫣