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How onion services work, why their addresses look the way they do, and how to run one yourself.

Onion services

What changed when v2 onion addresses stopped working

If you have a bookmark ending in sixteen characters and .onion, it died in October 2021. What happened, why, and why it made phishing so much worse.

September 10, 2026 4 minute read

Onion services

What an onion service is, and how it differs from a website

Onion services are sites that live inside the Tor network and never touch the ordinary internet. Here is how they work and why their addresses look like that.

September 8, 2026 6 minute read

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