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

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

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


Index


Blogs

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Alexander Færøy

Ctrl blog

Dropsafe

Kushal Das

Michael Altfield

Ming Di Leom

Nick Frichette


Civil Society and Community

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Privacy International

Riseup Home

Riseup Onion Index

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

Systemli Home

Systemli Onion Index

provides shared notepad, spreadsheet, pastebin, and other services

decoded:Legal

english law firm


Education

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BBC Learning English

includes resources for many languages

BBC Learning English: Mandarin


Government

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US Central Intelligence Agency


News

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BBC

Deutsche Welle

see language index in titlebar

ProPublica

Radio Free Europe (RFERL)

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

The Intercept

The New York Times


News BBC World Service

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BBC News /afaanoromoo | Afaan Oromoo

BBC News /afrique | Afrique

BBC News /amharic | አማርኛ

BBC News /arabic | عربي

BBC News /azeri | Azərbaycanca

BBC News /bengali | বাংলা

BBC News /burmese | မြန်မာ

BBC News /gahuza | Gahuza

BBC News /gujarati | ગુજરાતી

BBC News /hausa | Hausa

BBC News /hindi | हिंदी

BBC News /igbo | Ìgbò

BBC News /indonesia | Indonesia

BBC News /korean | 코리아

BBC News /kyrgyz | Кыргыз КызMATы

BBC News /marathi | मराठी

BBC News /mundo | Mundo

BBC News /nepali | नेपाली

BBC News /pashto | پښتو

BBC News /persian | فارسی

BBC News /pidgin | Pidgin

BBC News /portuguese | Brasil

BBC News /punjabi | ਪੰਜਾਬੀ

BBC News /russian | Русская служба

BBC News /serbian/cyr | на српском

BBC News /serbian/lat | na srpskom

BBC News /sinhala | සිංහල

BBC News /somali | Somali

BBC News /swahili | Swahili

BBC News /tamil | தமிழ்

BBC News /telugu | తెలుగు

BBC News /thai | ไทย

BBC News /tigrinya | ትግርኛ

BBC News /turkce | Türkçe

BBC News /ukrainian | Україна

BBC News /urdu | اردو

BBC News /uzbek | O'zbek

BBC News /vietnamese | Tiếng Việt

BBC News /yoruba | Yorùbá

BBC News /zhongwen/simp | 中文

BBC News /zhongwen/trad | 中文

BBC News | In Your Language

language index


News Deutsche Welle World

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Deutsche Welle Albanian | Shqip

Deutsche Welle Amharic | አማርኛ

Deutsche Welle Arabic | العربية

Deutsche Welle Bengali | বাংলা

Deutsche Welle Bosnian | B/H/S

Deutsche Welle Bulgarian | Български

Deutsche Welle Chinese (Simplified) | 简

Deutsche Welle Chinese (Traditional) | 繁

Deutsche Welle Croatian | Hrvatski

Deutsche Welle Dari | دری

Deutsche Welle English | English

Deutsche Welle French | Français

Deutsche Welle German | Deutsch

Deutsche Welle Greek | Ελληνικά

Deutsche Welle Hausa | Hausa

Deutsche Welle Hindi | हिन्दी

Deutsche Welle Indonesian | Indonesia

Deutsche Welle Kiswahili | Kiswahili

Deutsche Welle Macedonian | Македонски

Deutsche Welle Pashto | پښتو

Deutsche Welle Persian | فارسی

Deutsche Welle Polish | Polski

Deutsche Welle Portuguese | Português do Brasil

Deutsche Welle Portuguese | Português para África

cannot find top-page redirect

Deutsche Welle Romanian | Română

Deutsche Welle Russian | Русский

Deutsche Welle Serbian | Српски/Srpski

Deutsche Welle Spanish | Español

Deutsche Welle Turkish | Türkçe

Deutsche Welle Ukrainian | Українська

Deutsche Welle Urdu | اردو


News RFERL

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RFERL | Idel Реалии

RFERL | Qırım Aqiqat

RFERL | Азатлык хәбәрләре

RFERL | Кавказ Реалии

RFERL | Крим Реалії 1

RFERL | Крым Реалии 2

RFERL | Маршо Радион

RFERL | Настоящее Время

RFERL | Радыё Свабода

RFERL | Сибирь Реалии 1

RFERL | Сибирь Реалии 2


Search Engines

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Brave Search

seems to block curl / upness-tester

DuckDuckGo Search


Social Networks

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Facebook

Facebook Mobile


Tech and Software

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Ablative Hosting

DEF CON Groups

DEF CON Home

DEF CON Media

Debian Onion Index

Hardened BSD Onion Index

Impreza Hosting

OnionShare

Qubes OS

Tor Project Home

Tor Project Onion Index

everything tor-related

Whonix Forums

Whonix Home

keybase.io


Web and Internet

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Archive Today

Cloudflare Public DNS 1.1.1.1

HARICA Certificate Authority

Protonmail


SecureDrop

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2600: The Hacker Quarterly

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

ABC

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

Aftenposten AS

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

Aftonbladet

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

Al Jazeera Media Network

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

Apache

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

Bloomberg Law

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

Bloomberg News

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

CBC

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

Dagbladet

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

Financial Times

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

Forbidden Stories

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

HuffPost

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

Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University

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

Investigace.cz

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

Lessig.law LLC

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

NRK

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

New York Times

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

ProPublica

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

Public Intelligence

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

Stefania Maurizi

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

Süddeutsche Zeitung

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

TV2 Denmark

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

TechCrunch

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

The Center for Public Integrity

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

The Globe and Mail

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

The Guardian

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

The Intercept

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

The Markup

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

The Washington Post

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

Thomson Reuters

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

Toronto Star

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

VICE Media

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

Whistleblower Aid

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


Flaky Sites

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These sites have apparently stopped responding.

Impffrei.work

job agency

Internet Archive (archive.org)

The New York Times: Chinese

treacherous.tech


Footnotes

  • This file (README.md) is auto-generated
    • Do NOT submit changes NOR pull-requests for it
    • Please submit an Issue for consideration / change requests
  • If both v2 and v3 addresses are provided for a service, the v3 address will be preferred / cited
  • 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 network error (may be a problem with the RWOS server connection)
  • 🆕 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.

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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