"Dark web" and "Deep Web"
19/05/2025

The terms "dark web" and "deep web" are often used interchangeably and only to mean spooky scary illegal websites, but they have quite distinct meanings and conflating the two just kinda fearmongers the interweb a little bit. You might've heard that statistic that 90 something percent of the internet is deep web content, and that IS true! and it seems scary if you don't know the different between deep web and dark web;

The deep web is Not illegal content. It's just anything that you cannot access through a search engine and this includes like almost anything such as paywalled content. If you watched netflix on a browser you have accessed the deep web if you have entered somebodys patreon on a browser you have accessed the deep web just regular sections of a website taht you can only access through clicking in the website and not by a search engine Are deep web content! the spooky scary illegal content that you imagine when you hear either term is (for the most part) only on the dark web, whcih is only about 5% of the internet.

The dark web is just .onion websites, only accessible through the Tor browser. They are, again, not searchable through any search engine No .onion website will ever appear by googling, so you usually find new ones with sitelists Like I dunno. I've kinda just browsed thehiddenwiki dot com which has a few dark web sites listed. And its only in these .onion websites that you Will find illegal content like drugs and counterfeit money and false legal documents and hacking and hitmen and CSEM and gore (though you can find that one on the surface web too)

Thats not the only thing .onion websites are for though I've seen some regular blogs n news sites n stuff. There's the bible in there. Did you know the goshdamn CIA has an official .onion website. ayup. Pretty cool shit