> The problem is chicken and egg ... That's not an issue of Tor. The same thing happens in the clear web, how do you know www.bbc.com is the BBC you trust from

> The problem is chicken and egg ... That's not an issue of Tor. The same thing happens in the clear web, how do you know www.bbc.com is the BBC you trust from the TV?. That happens to any domain, in fact, that happens to any source of information. How did you start trusting in your current religion or politics?. Chances are that you were convinced by a source(s) that for some reason you previously decided to relied and trust. We build some kind of web-of-trust in our heads, and it's normal that we do not trust in any .onion address initially. Eventually we import trust from sources outside of Tor that we currently trust (like you did by getting bbc's .onion address from its website), and then we start adding some .onion addresses to our "trusted sources" list I suppose your criticism is that last step of adding that .onion address to your trusted sources is really painful. It's easy to remember www.bbc.com, but not its .onion address. We eventually need to automate this, something like password managers but for trusted sources