The darknet is your secretive corner of this internet available only through specific software. Hidden within that it are onion links leading to countless hidden sites offering everything from black-market goods to illegal services. But how do one access these types of onion links? And, additional crucially, how can you ensure your protective while doing so?To uncover the truth powering onion links, you should know how they work. Every onion has your unique URL it consists of random characters followed closely by ".onion." These URLs tend to be not indexed by search engines and require important software, like the Tor browser, to reach them.