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This is a list of substantial, commercial-or-social-good mainstream websites which provide onion services.

  • no sites with an "onion-only" presence
  • no sites for tech with less than (arbitrary) 10,000 users
  • no nudity, exploitation, drugs, copyright infringement or sketchy-content sites
  • the editor reserves all rights to annotate or drop any or all entries as deemed fit
  • licensed: cc-by-sa
  • author/editor: alec muffett

You can find techical details and the legend/key for symbols in the footnotes section, below.


Index


Civil Society And Community

  • link: https://privacyintyqcroe.onion/
  • plain: https://privacyintyqcroe.onion/
  • proof: see tls/ssl certificate
  • check: 🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘

provides shared notepad, file sharing, code hosting, and other services

provides shared notepad, spreadsheet, pastebin, and other services


Companies And Services

english law firm


Education

includes resources for many languages


Government


News And Media

language index

  • link: https://bfnews3u2ox4m4ty.onion/
  • plain: https://bfnews3u2ox4m4ty.onion/
  • proof: see tls/ssl certificate
  • check:

also, see language index in titlebar

  • link: https://www.dwnewsvdyyiamwnp.onion/ar/
  • plain: https://www.dwnewsvdyyiamwnp.onion/ar/
  • proof: see tls/ssl certificate
  • check: ✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️
  • link: https://www.dwnewsvdyyiamwnp.onion/zh/
  • plain: https://www.dwnewsvdyyiamwnp.onion/zh/
  • proof: see tls/ssl certificate
  • check: ✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️
  • link: https://www.dwnewsvdyyiamwnp.onion/fa-ir/
  • plain: https://www.dwnewsvdyyiamwnp.onion/fa-ir/
  • proof: see tls/ssl certificate
  • check: ✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️
  • link: https://www.dwnewsvdyyiamwnp.onion/ru/
  • plain: https://www.dwnewsvdyyiamwnp.onion/ru/
  • proof: see tls/ssl certificate
  • check: ✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️
  • link: https://www.dwnewsvdyyiamwnp.onion/tr/
  • plain: https://www.dwnewsvdyyiamwnp.onion/tr/
  • proof: see tls/ssl certificate
  • check: ✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️✳️

Tech And Software

everything debian

everything tor


Web And Internet

  • link: https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/
  • plain: https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/
  • proof: see tls/ssl certificate
  • check:
  • link: https://protonirockerxow.onion/
  • plain: https://protonirockerxow.onion/
  • proof: see tls/ssl certificate
  • check:

Globaleaks

italian whistleblowing

hungarian leaks

czech anticorruption reporting site

elephant action league

anticorruption whistleblowing


Securedrop For Individuals


Securedrop For Organisations

  • link: https://y27vf7g2ce5g3fnl.onion/
  • plain: https://y27vf7g2ce5g3fnl.onion/
  • proof: see tls/ssl certificate
  • check:

Apache 🔧

Forbes 🔧

Meduza 🔧

NBCNews 🔧

NPR 🔧

NRK 🔧

POGO 🔧

project on government oversight

Reuters 🔧

Slate 🔧

Wired 🔧

slovenian whistleblower organisation


Flaky Sites

These sites have apparently stopped responding.

italian investigative reporting project

Footnotes

  • If both v2 and v3 addresses are provided for a service, the v3 address will be preferred / cited
  • The master list of Onion SSL EV Certificates may be viewed at https://crt.sh/?q=%25.onion
  • This file (README.md) is auto-generated; do not submit changes nor pull-requests for it
    • Please submit an Issue for consideration / change requests

RWOS Status Detector

  • ✅ site up
  • ✳️ site up, and redirected to another page
  • 🚫 site up, but could not access the page
  • 🛑 site up, but reported a system error
  • 🆘 site returned no data, or is down, or curl experienced a transient network error
  • 🆕 site is newly added, no data yet

You can also see the history of updates.

Codes & Exit Statuses

Mouse-over the icons for details of HTTP codes, curl exit statuses, and the number of attempts made on each site.

TLS Security

Due to the fundamental protocol differences between HTTP and HTTPS, it is not wise to consider HTTP-over-Onion to be "as secure as HTTPS"; web browsers do and must treat HTTPS requests in ways that are fundamentally different to HTTP, e.g.:

  • with respect to cookie handling, or
  • where the trusted connection terminates, or
  • how to deal with loading embedded insecure content, or
  • whether to permit access to camera and microphone devices (WebRTC)

...and the necessity of broad adherence to web standards would make it harmful to attempt to optimise just one browser (e.g. Tor Browser) to elevate HTTP-over-Onion to the same levels of trust as HTTPS-over-TCP, let alone HTTPS-over-Onion. Doubtless some browsers will attempt to implement "better-than-default trust and security via HTTP over onions", but this behaviour will not be standard, cannot be relied upon by clients/users, and will therefore be risky.

tl;dr - HTTP-over-Onion should not be considered as secure as HTTPS-over-Onion, and attempting to force it thusly will create a future compatibility mess for the ecosystem of onion-capable browsers.

  • 🔧 semi-secure HTTP Onion site, protected by Onion circuits at best; will not respect browser secure/HTTPS behaviour
  • 🔐 secure HTTPS Onion site, protected by both Onion circuits and TLS, will respect browser secure/HTTPS behaviour

Feedback

The issues page is the fastest and most effective way to submit a suggestion; if you lack a Github account, try messaging @alecmuffett on Twitter.


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