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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 products/technology 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

Legend/Key for Symbols

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

Regarding Updates and Suggestions

  • This file (README.md) is auto-generated from a spreadsheet
  • Please submit an Issue for consideration / desired change requests
  • Do NOT submit changes NOR pull-requests for it
  • Re: SecureDrop - all SecureDrop entries are taken automatically from https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/ and must be amended on that site, not this one.

Index


Blogs

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Civil Society and Community

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

provides shared notepad, spreadsheet, pastebin, and other services

*english law firm; see also https://neilzone.co.uk/2022/03/upgrading-my-onion-site-to-https *

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Education

includes resources for many languages

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Government

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News

see language index in titlebar

https://www.rfa.org/about/releases/mirror_websites-04172020105949.html

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News BBC World Service

language index

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News Deutsche Welle World

cannot find top-page redirect

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News RFERL & VOA

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Search Engines

works fine, but seems to block curl / upness-tester; ignore status codes below

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Social Networks

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Tech and Software

everything tor-related

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Web and Internet

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SecureDrop

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

via: https://securedrop.org/api/v1/directory/

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Flaky Sites

These sites have apparently stopped responding.

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Footnotes

  • At the moment where an organisation runs 2+ onion addresses for closely related services that do not reflect distinct languages / national interests, I am posting a link to an index of their onions. Examples: Riseup, Systemli, TorProject, ...
  • The master list of Onion SSL EV Certificates may be viewed at https://crt.sh/?q=\.onion

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 or permanent network error; may also reflect a problem with the RWOS server connection
  • ❓ same as 🆘 but curl specifically mentioned inability to fetch an onion descriptor
  • ❗ same as 🆘 but curl specifically mentioned inability to connect to the server
  • ⏰ same as 🆘 but curl specifically mentioned connection timeout as an issue
  • ⏲️ same as 🆘 but curl specifically mentioned ttl expiry as an issue
  • 🔑 same as 🆘 but curl specifically mentioned SSL certificates as an issue
  • 🆕 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.

  • codes are from HTTP and are documented elsewhere; RWOS-internal ones include:
    • 901 - malformed HTTP response
    • 902 - malformed HTTP response
    • 903 - malformed HTTP response, commonly including (e.g.) invalid HTTPS certificate
    • 904 - HTTP status code parse error
    • 910 - connection timeout
  • exits are from Curl and are documented elsewhere; common ones include:
    • 7 - "curl couldn't connect"
    • 52 - "curl got nothing", received no data from upstream

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.

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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