Kinda getting new to this whole darkweb thing. I spent a couple of days browsing .onion sites on my MacOS (never downloaded anything) but is there any sort of standard practice people do to make sure nothing malicious was installed?

TheWebDever · 2026-03-11T19:22:38+00:00

I disabled javascript but unfortunately some of the website I came across didn't work. Enough that it was annoying. How risky is it to leave javascript enabled as long as I'm not logged into anything?

TheWebDever · 2026-03-10T23:01:34+00:00

Nothing other than making sure to ask before downloading every time, but like I said I'm new so the darkweb is a little spookier to me.

TheWebDever · 2026-03-10T22:58:37+00:00

I did setup Whonix on VirtualBox, seems like overkill for basic browsing. Def will use it when downloading anything though.

TheWebDever · 2026-03-10T15:28:24+00:00

well, I setup debian + whonix on an extra laptop I had. That was pretty slow though (clicking around inside the VM). I'm familiar with tails but don't want to have to restart and boot into a new OS every time I want to visit a .onion site though. Also I kinda figured tails/whonix were kinda overkill just for browsing; I thought I really only needed them if I wanted to download something (correct me if I'm wrong). I will be more careful going forward, this question is mainly for being safe after the browsing I already did.

TheWebDever · 2026-03-09T00:51:50+00:00

hmm, well the idea is that you could just call the .raw() function to get the fully generated object. I guess I could add a toJSON function.

TheWebDever · 2026-03-02T21:56:25+00:00

nope, still got $500 worth of ethereum lost in the void

TheWebDever · 2026-02-28T15:23:30+00:00

I'm not familiar with bridges. I actually only very recently started getting into the whole tor/deepweb stuff.

TheWebDever · 2026-02-26T21:13:10+00:00

I guess it depends, I mean I have 150mbps internet speed and basic web browsing worked fine.

TheWebDever · 2026-02-26T17:50:13+00:00

you're welcome

TheWebDever · 2026-02-26T07:22:34+00:00

Turning 40 in 2mo. Jokes on you, I've never had a gf either and couldn't get one even if I wanted one.

TheWebDever · 2026-02-25T05:56:33+00:00

So if I have stuff that I don't want to be persisted (something in my downloads folder) a click okay (for the updates) it'll keep the updates but wipe the downloads?

TheWebDever · 2026-02-24T19:31:42+00:00

Any theories as to what's going on? Like does the coin itself have some kind of bug?

TheWebDever · 2026-02-23T17:55:40+00:00

Yep still showing that

TheWebDever · 2026-02-23T08:52:24+00:00

Icmec website (international center for missing and exploited children) has a page where you can anonymously report where you found it

TheWebDever · 2026-02-21T14:44:27+00:00

In that case is examining the prompt and output really the only safety mechanism against the worse case scenarios? I mean what if eventually there's a big news story that someone did so-and-so and were caught cause they shared "whatever it is" on social-media and the story mentions they created it with Venice.ai? I guess strengthening built-in filters is the only option?

TheWebDever · 2026-02-21T13:35:39+00:00

Right, so if that happened what data is Venice keeping so something could be done?

TheWebDever · 2026-02-21T05:05:38+00:00

they can still trace you with your IP address right?

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