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Old 04-07-2024, 09:28 PM  
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This is what Tor has to say about onion services:


ONION SERVICES

Onion services (formerly known as "hidden services") are services, like websites, that are only accessible through the Tor network.

Onion services offer several advantages over ordinary services on the non-private web:

Onion services' location and IP address are hidden, making it difficult for adversaries to censor them or identify their operators.

All traffic between Tor users and onion services is end-to-end encrypted, so you do not need to worry about connecting over HTTPS.

The address of an onion service is automatically generated, so the operators do not need to purchase a domain name.

Because of the cryptography involved, the .onion URL lets Tor ensure that it is connecting to the right location and that the connection is not being tampered with.

https://tb-manual.torproject.org/onion-services/
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