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Dark web sites don't link to each other very often:
Researchers have just conducted a comprehensive mapping of the dark web and found that it's not much of a web at all. They started with a few central hubs in the ".onion" domain (sort of like .com on the surface web) and used an algorithm to crawl along links from site to site, finding only 7178 sites, connected to each other through 25,104 links. (Sites with no inbound links couldn't be counted.) Their key finding is that 87% of these dark web sites don't link to any other sites. The dark web is more of a set of "dark silos," they write in a preliminary paper posted on arXiv yesterday. Dark websites linked to surface websites and to other dark websites at the same rate, ruling out dark sites' ephemerality as an explanation for their scant interconnections.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Lagg on Monday May 01 2017, @06:07AM
If you link to another website - especially if you don't take user generated content - you've just provided a recognizable connection between those two sites that is apparent to any interested entity. Additionally people who want to buy drugs or teh warez aren't going to be linking to those storefronts on tinfoilhat.net/forum for example. Or perhaps as fnord stated in the dept line sometimes they really are just that specialized or one-off sites. Which wouldn't be the same in this context as mere ephemerality. More often than not any site that needs that level of protection would be pretty specialized in its function in the first place.
At the very least those would be better thought out possibilities than:
“I personally find this rather strange, and interpret it as, socially speaking, people who create dark web sites are just less social beings,”
Which is just dumb and simplifies it all to hell. Ignoring technical factors that make people want to darkweb a site in the first place.
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