[mimixco]

Very true. I'd recommend Yasha Levine's (the post author's) book Surveillance Valley for anyone interested in this topic.

You'll notice any web posts about "how to get on the dark web" suggest Tor. Uh, huh.

[arthurcolle]

.onion addresses point to hidden services, and I was under the impression that the "dark web" usually just refers to these hidden services. So what other alternatives exist besides "Tor" and associated .onion addresses to access the dark web if its not hidden services?

[earenndil]

There are other 'dark webs'. Most prominent afaik are i2p and freenet (although both of those do something slightly different than tor).