Put those floaties on and dive in.

Feb 24, 2026 4:11 PM

DawnAgain

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That diagram is mixing up the deep web with the dark web.
Deep web: Not findable by search engine. Includes content that can only be reached after login, which is the vast majority of web content.
Dark web: Not findable by search engine, and therefore a subset of the deep web. Can only be reached using a TOR-enabled browser. Makes up a very tiny portion of web content.

4 weeks ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

LMAO - this iceberg crap is still floating around?

4 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I thought the "deep web" also contained all the company networks behind firewalls and the like. Ex: Remote into your office servers for files even though they are not publicly available, nor indexed by search engines, they are still part of "the web".

4 weeks ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

So basically you don't know the difference between the deep web and the dark web. You don't need a dedicated browser to use the deep web. Anything behind a login page is the deep web. If you use your bank website, you've used the deep web.

4 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm giving less and less of a shit about the part I can see, no need for a deep dive

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I appreciate the education, but "Deep web" just means things not indexed by Google. This can be done by a password/identity requirement, or as simple as a robots.txt file that says "go away" to search engines.

It's not as nefarious as one would think.

4 weeks ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

assuming anyone reads robots.txt anyway

4 weeks ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

yet the biggest pedo ring just used gmail

1 month ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

I wonder if google removing their "don't be evil" motto has some correlation to that...

4 weeks ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Quick fact check: The Tor network is estimated to be around three ten-thousandths of one percent (0.0003%) of the size of the public internet.

It's not "500x larger". It's teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeny tiny.

1 month ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

They're trying to use deep web and dark web interchangeably. The deep web is 500x larger (probably more). The dark web is tiny.

4 weeks ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Its a bit of a weird point in this post. That one is not about Tor specifically. It also includes database, private, and protected servers.

4 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, I could understand private, especially business databases have a lot of data, but that's not part of the internet. I'm too braindead to come up with a good metaphor here but there's a difference between tor and calling things that were never meant to be publicly accessible through any means "the deep web".

4 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0