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Neither. Either can be mistyped. Nobody enters addresses directly anymore. Either you google them or you get them from bookmarks.
by shaky-carrousel 5y ago
Neither. Either can be mistyped. Nobody enters addresses directly anymore. Either you google them or you get them from bookmarks.
- Etheryte 5y agoIt's very easy to think that things we do ourselves are universal because they seem so intuitive and natural for us. I for one type addresses from scratch all the time.
- shp0ngle 5y agoYeah so in case of Tor, people use DDG which is the default. And DDG, being bad and handling SEO spam worse than Google, often returns wrong onion address. (Which happened to me several times.) And you cannot really check if it's the correct one. At least on regular net, you have a chance to spot nytime5 is fake.
- Jerrrry 5y agoOnion addresses that are mistyped are almost certainly an invalid address. It is not possible to squat onion domains for typo errors like you can clearnet addresses. Similar to bitcoin, one character swapped breaks the hash-checksum, making the address 99.99999999% likely to be invalid.