When using these gateways, you are on the “normal” web and any dns server used by your browser will see the URL you are visiting (e.g. When using the TOR browser with long random TOR URLs, your browsing is relatively private. Never enter login credentials (or anything personal) when using these gateways. A malicious operator can log and record your entire session with all traffic send back and form (between you and the TOR service). Because the service is the one routing you to your final destination, they see everywhere you go and everything you see. This is the same risk you experience when using any VPN service. I mention above to only use these services when security and privacy aren’t a concern. New sites pop up everyday so if these sites don’t work for you, just search for tor2web gateway in your favourite search engine (,, etc) Warning Using most sites is very simple, you take your TOR address Remember that using these gateways means the gateway operator can see where you are going, and you lose all privacy and anonymity features of TOR.

the TOR2WEB project was designed to allow users to access all onion services without using the TOR browser. These services are called TOR gateways or TOR proxies. The following sites are web services that will allow you to access tor sites without using the tor browser (using a normal browser like Chrome, Firefox or Safari). That is the purpose of this blog article. In these situations, web-based services allow you to browse these tor (.onion) sites from a standard browser. There may be times when you are on a device that doesn't have the TOR browser and when speed is more important than privacy or security. This purpose-built browser uses a hardened firefox to deliver maximum anonymity while browsing the 'normal' web or tor sites.

The right way of accessing TOR sites is with the secure TOR browser designed and distributed by the TOR project. These sites are easy to identify because the terminating marker is. The last couple of articles I wrote referred readers to TOR (darknet/darkweb) sites.

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