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DuckDuckGo is a search engine, you have to use tor browser or brave or something to access onion links. Clicking .onion links on your regular browser won’t work as it won’t be able to resolve the link.

boston wine 2y ago

DuckDuckGo supports onion links though. So I’m trying to understand whether the traffic is automatically routed over Tor just by using an onion link, or if using the Tor browser itself is required for privacy in this case

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pac 2y ago

Tor links will only work if you are using tor network. Otherwise the address will not be found by your browser.

boston wine 2y ago

Okay, got it sorted. I was able to access an onion link on DuckDuckGo but only when using Orbot Tor VPN

Thanks yall

Alejandro 2y ago

I interpret this as the Tor browser does 2 functions: web browser resolving onion URLs and onion routing.

Your VPN is now doing the onion routing and the duck duck go browser is resolving the onion URLs.

boston wine 2y ago

That’s a great way of explaining it. Thank you!

thom 2y ago

Yes, DuckDuckGo shows onion links in search results. However, you’ll still need a browser that understands what they are in order to access such links.

boston wine 2y ago

Accessed it running DuckDuckGo over Orbot on mobile - guess it required that layer because when I disabled Orbot vpn, DuckDuckGo could no longer reach the onion site