Dark Web —

Setting aside its public image, the Dark Web is actually just a subset of the Deep Web. Comprising a string of unindexed sites, it can be explored in a similar fashion to the Surface Web – except specialized browsers are required. One such example is TOR (The Onion Router), through which users can navigate from site to site without ever surfacing onto the Visible Web. 

The Dark Web is navigated through specialized browsers—the most popular being TOR (The Onion Router)—that afford users a high degree of cloaking, or “virtual traffic tunnels”. This makes user activity extremely difficult to track, which, in turn, draws illicit dealings. Studies show that 62% of people who use TOR, do so to utilize its anonymity features.

While this ill-famed domain only accounts for a fraction of the entire web—no more than 6%—it should be remembered that the Surface Web only makes up 10%, so the Dark Web can hardly be called small. And it’s growing fast, showing a threefold expansion since 2017, with the worldwide usership reaching 2M in 2022.

Of all the illicit activity that is fostered by the Dark Web, by far the most abundant concerns the buying and selling of illegal goods and services. With the advent of Bitcoin in 2009, darknet marketplaces exploded. A cryptographically obscured platform combined with an anonymous digital payment system drew both vendors and customers in their droves. In 2020, revenue from darknet markets hit an all-time high of $1.7B.

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