Sites like the The Hidden Wiki (v3 Onion) are a great starting point for privacy exploration on the dark web. I love what the PrivacyGuides community has done for beginners and advanced users alike, but there is no overlap into the dark web. At a minimum, PrivacyGuides should have a tor site for users in my opinion. Of course, we can argue whether tor is better than a good VPN til we’re blue in the face, but it would be great for those just starting to experiment to have a safe DW site to visit.
The Hidden Wiki has a great registry of privacy-oriented tooling and services just like we do here, and it’s much needed with all the anti-privacy practices that big corporations have been force-feeding down our throats. It was honestly my first portal into the privacy space when I began experimenting with tor, and it’s been like a nucleation point for everything else privacy in my life.
To my knowledge there is no onion site for the forums though, which is far more popular.
While the site is nice in some ways, I am not sure PG would want to associate with a site offering links to fake IDs and black market gun sales. PG wont even allow discussion of Annas Archive recent activities.
It’s not like we don’t allow the discussion of Anna’s Archives, it’s more so that that specific topic being raised was not directly linked to privacy or security.
Anyhow, being an onion link repository is quite outside of our mission scope. You don’t need an Onion domain for the work we’re doing, which is to offer accessible resources for the most amount of people possible. We simply offer that as a solution for folks where accessing our main knowledge base is banned by their government.
I’m not sure what the meaningful difference is if the topic ends up locked and unlisted.
Also, I don’t understand why a topic needs to connect to privacy or security in the off-topic section. Isn’t the whole point that it’s off-topic?
This confusion could be avoided in the future if the moderator provided a reason for locking and delisting when they do so.
Regardless, the main point is that the site will likely be delisted for being inappropriate due to clear links to illegal activity, rather than focusing on that specific thread.
That makes sense. I mentioned it because it seemed confusing to say on the forum that the site has a .onion version; to me, that would include the forum.
I remember replying to that Spotify thread. No idea it was removed, and I’m disappointed that it was. It didn’t seem to be off-topic when I read it. Maybe it derailed later on.. but I will never know because it’s gone now.
I thought so too when I made a thread a while ago on Epstein’s leaked emails. Supposedly, off-topic still has to relate somewhat to privacy and security, which is beyond me. (I thought that topic still related to privacy and security, but it was deleted anyway. That’s whatever..)
Maybe it needs to relate to privacy/security because monitoring heavily off-topic posts is difficult? The staff count does seem to be low. I’ve yet to receive support from moderators I requested 5 days ago. But I doubt this is the reason.
Just curious, what tools do they list? I’ve never been on there before and don’t plan to go on there.