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The dark web itself isn't a marketplace like what you're thinking. So the black market or whatever you wanna call it, once you're connected to the dark web, Tor, the onion router, what I was explaining before, you still need to know where to go to visit these horrible websites. And they're like, you know, imagine a very long string of letters and numbers and the website instead of dot com, it'd be dot onion. You can't visit those websites in a regular browser. You have to do that while you're connected to the onion router, which you can download at the Tor, T O R, 's website. And then you could go to a thing called like the Hidden Wiki, and the Hidden Wiki will show you all different categories of these websites with a link to them. And there's marketplaces, there's horrible things on there like you said for kids and even like murder for hire, there's there's counterfeit money, there's fake IDs, you know, there are all kinds of different websites that do horrible things. What is the onion router? So the onion router is a tool, an open source project that was created to anonymize your traffic on the internet. And it decentralizes, I believe decentralized would be the word for it, your internet traffic. It keeps you anonymous beyond a VPN. I would still recommend that you use a virtual private network on top of Tor if you want to be anonymous, but it's just a layer of security that's free and it keeps it, like for example, let's say you use Comcast for your internet service provider, they could see that you're using Tor, but they can't see what you're looking at. If you use a VPN and then you use Tor, they can only tell you're using a VPN but they can't tell you're using Tor. So it's just an internet within an internet.