> but I don't want to get anywhere near illegal stuff. Then you should probably stop using the web altogether. I'm seriously confused how using Tor places you

> but I don't want to get anywhere near illegal stuff. Then you should probably stop using the web altogether. I'm seriously confused how using Tor places you closer to "illegal stuff" then browsing as you do? Could you clarify? Even if we're going to draw the distinction between .onion sites and the plain web (and there's nothing about Tor that requires you to visit or interact with .onion sites) I'm nearly certain that there are many orders of magnitude more "illegal stuff" being shared on traditional websites than the "dark web". Plenty of drugs are purchased through Venmo, and Tumblr and Twitter have had pretty high incidents of child exploitation materials being shared on there (and, despite having been a heavy user of those sites at some point, never came across any content close to that). My experience has been that, barring 4chan 10 years ago, it is extremely rare that you'll ever come across any "illegal stuff" unless you are looking for it.