Well, the question is self-explanatory. I am curious to enter the Deep Web, but I don’t know if I would find anything very different there from what I already know on the Surface. In this case, what interests me most are documents, books or any other media that contain information that we can’t easily find on the Surface, and this would be my only stimulus to enter the Deep. Would it be worth it?
In my experience, there is probably information that’s not available in the surface, mostly whistleblowing and such. But take it with a grain of salt since I only used to go into the deep web to buy drugs :)
Go there periodically not for any content, but to get familiar with its workings.
You never know when you might find an actual need for it.Definitely have and use the Tor Browser (TB). Most of the activity I use with it only has to do with the darknet secondarily (deep web is kinda a meme term), instead more of its use comes from anonymizing regular old “surfing”. The obfuscation of your surfing’s metadata is a huge blow to adware trackers, malware trackers, ISP-govt linked snooping - by this method you will also find out the steadily growing “gray-net” (a term I just made up) = clearnet sites getting an onion address option (when you visit [x].com’s clearnet in TB you will, if available, get a little clickable button at the right side of the URL bar which will ask to redirect you to the torified version of the domain). Search engines like MetaGer and DDG have this, so does certain invidious and piped instances, as well as The Pirate Bay (TPB). In the latter case of TPB you will be anonymous all the way up until the point where you’ve found a magnet link to download through your torrent client. If you then use a “standard” one you will now (hopefully) rely on your VPN (and not torrenting while completely barebacking the internet), but I’ll have you know that you can today actually even anonymize a bit of this as well by specifically using Qbittorrent and enabling “anonymization” in options, which is a native anonymization feature for P2P that they have developed. To be clear this is a native anonymization feature that has nothing to do with the tor anonymization network itself, which is mainly geared for HTTP(S) and not torrenting (UDP) traffic. The tor network by itself actually does not support torrenting and the devs suggest against even trying to set it up as it 1. impacts the network negatively and 2. doesn’t work properly due to how the tor protocol is intended to function and the way it differentiates from the bittorrent protocol.
