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Disclaimer

TorWatch publishes general information about Tor, the dark web, privacy tools and crypto privacy. It is not legal, tax or financial advice, it cannot promise that any tool or setup will keep you anonymous, and a link to a service is not an endorsement of everything that service does. What you do with the information, and the law where you live, are your responsibility.

Pages that discuss whether something is legal, such as using Tor, holding privacy coins or reporting crypto for tax, summarise the laws and rulings they link to, as of the date given. Laws differ between countries, change over time, and turn on facts a general page can't know about you. For a decision with legal or tax consequences, talk to a lawyer or tax adviser who is qualified where you live.

No tool makes you anonymous on its own

Tor, a VPN, Tails, Whonix, Signal and Monero each protect against particular threats and leave others open. The guides say which, but your safety also depends on your device, your habits and who is looking for you. The cases where Tor users were identified came down to a reused name, a login, an exploited browser or someone watching both ends, not to a break in Tor's routing. If being identified could put you in danger, treat these pages as a starting point and get help from people who know your situation.

Services, onion addresses and outside sites

Product names belong to their owners. A recommendation covers the specific evidence the page gives for it. Services change owners, policies and addresses, so check an onion address against the operator's own published source each time, as the onion sites directory does for every entry, and read how dark web scams work before trusting one from anywhere else.

Linked sites are run by other people. TorWatch has no control over what they publish or collect, and a link to a court record, a forum or a news report is a citation for the sentence it sits on, nothing more.

Information is accurate as of its date

Version numbers, usage figures, audits, prices and legal positions are correct as of the date each page gives. Software and law move faster than any page can be rechecked, so if something you rely on has a date on it, check the linked source for the current version before you act. The contact page is where a stale figure or a moved address gets reported.