Can someone point me in the direction of information on the dark web that you trust?

[mitch96]

What is an onion router? ?TOR? same? Are there different ones like different brousers? Is it an OS?
Why is it not safe? How to make it safe? Will the saftey protocols used on a TOR site work on the regular web?
Just curious
m

[hueymahl]

4. Also, Brave has Tor built in

It is more friendly than the Tor Router - breaks fewer normal web pages because it is based on chromium, the open source code that Chrome uses, but without all the nasty trackers Google adds in.

brave.com

[sl8]

5. Yes, but with caveats:

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018121491-What-is-a-Private-Window-with-Tor-Connectivity-

[...]
What if I want absolute anonymity while browsing?
If your personal safety depends on remaining anonymous, we highly recommend using Tor Browser instead of Brave Tor windows.

Note that Tor windows are only available for the Desktop version of the browser at this time.

[...]

[hueymahl]

7. Excellent point.

Which, in a way, makes me feel better about Brave and the people running it. They know enough to know that absolute safety requires fewer moving parts. If you really want to ramp it up, add in a vpn to the mix (as long as you know HOW to add in a vpn, because done incorrectly, it can make you LESS secure.

[Wonder Why]

6. You can't even trust most things on the "bright" web either!

[T_A]

8. Hmmmm

information on the dark web that you trust?

Those tend to be mutually exclusive.

[mitch96]

9. I was reading on one web site to be secure on the dark net, the author uses a VPN and Linux on a thumb drive.

Pretty slick I'd say. You log onto the Onion router/Tor via Tails Linux on the thumb drive thru the VPN.
I would guess your IP Add is all over the place and hard to track..yes?
m