

Websites are usually labeled with registry operators like “.com” and “.org” and can be easily located with popular search engines. From a statistical standpoint, this collective of websites and data makes up under 5% of the total internet.Īll commonly public-facing websites accessed via traditional browsers like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox are contained here. If we continue to visualize the entire web like an iceberg, the open web would be the top portion that’s above the water. The open web, or surface web, is the “visible” surface layer. There are several terms surrounding the non-visible Web, but it's worth knowing how they differ if you're planning to browse off the beaten path. But the so-called "visible" Internet (aka surface web or open web) - sites that can be found using search engines like Google and Yahoo - is just the tip of the iceberg. The Internet is sizable with millions of web pages, databases, and servers all run 24 hours a day. What is the dark web, deep web, and surface web? While some use it to evade government censorship, it has also been known to be utilized for highly illegal activity. It is used for keeping internet activity anonymous and private, which can be helpful in both legal and illegal applications. Now simply double click on the Desktop shortcut of Tor Browser whenever you want to use it.The dark web is the hidden collective of internet sites only accessible by a specialized web browser. Then under the Permissions Tab, check the box given for “ Allow executing file as program” and then Close it. You will see a shortcut on your desktop, right-click on that, and select Properties. To save the Desktop shortcut, press Ctrl+X and then type Y followed by the Enter Key.

Icon=/opt/tor/Browser/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png sudo mkdir /opt/torĬreate a desktop shortcut for your browser by using the below command: nano ~/Desktop/sktopĪnd after that paste the following lines: Įxec=/opt/tor/Browser/./start-tor-browser To make sure you won’t delete the setup file of Tor Browser from the Downloads directory accidentally, let’s move it to /opt. cd Downloads tar -xvf tor-browser-linu圆4-*.*_ Open command terminal, switch to Downloads directory to extract the Tar file of download Tor Browser.

There click on the “ Download for Linux” button. Open your existing browser that is FIreFox on Linux Mint and visit the download page of Tor Project (here is the link).
