• _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 hours ago

    it says “this hidden site”, meaning it was a site on the dark web. It probably took them awhile to figure out were the site was located so they could shut it down.

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      9 hours ago

      it says “this hidden site”, meaning it was a site on the dark web.

      Not just on the dark web (which technically is anything not indexed by search engines) but hidden sites are specifically a TOR thing (though Freenet/Hyphanet has something similar but it’s called something else). Usually a TOR hidden site has a URL that ends in .onion and the TOR protocol has a structure for routing .onion addresses.