Opening an .onion address

Everything on AWazon Market sits behind .onion addresses, and .onion addresses only resolve inside a Tor browser. That is the whole trick: the address is not a domain, so no normal browser has a way to look it up, and the market is invisible to them by design. This page is the shortest correct path from an empty desktop to the storefront.

The four steps

1. Download Tor Browser from torproject.org. The desktop version covers Windows, macOS and Linux; on Android, the Tor Browser app does the same job. Install it like any other program. If a mirror site offers the file for you, it is not the project; go to the project's own page.
2. Launch it and let the circuit build. The first window takes a few seconds to appear. Every page you open afterwards routes through three relay hops, which is why Tor is slower than your normal connection and why that slowness should feel like a feature, not a symptom.
3. Paste the full address, .onion included. Use the copy button above, not your fingers. Paste it into the address bar, not the search box, and press enter. The 56 characters must arrive intact; a dropped letter is a different site.
4. Wait for the entry screens to finish. First the access queue with its spinner, then the dark "Are you not a Robot?" screen with the circle to click. Details on both, including what not to do while waiting: the queue and the robot check.

What normal looks like

A working entry takes ten to sixty seconds before the first pixel, then the queue runs on top of that. While it loads, the address bar already shows the .onion address. If a full minute passes and nothing happens at all, the circuit is dead and a retry usually fixes it. If instead you get a "Did you mean ..." page or a DNS error, a character is wrong and no amount of waiting will help: what each failure means.

Where it will not work

Chrome, Firefox and Edge cannot open .onion addresses; they will offer you a search instead of a page, and the search is not the market. Some add-ons bolt Tor onto a normal browser, and they work for reading pages, but they change how the browser handles certificates and storage, which matters less for browsing and more for a wallet. For anything involving money, use the Tor Browser itself.

On a phone, the same rules apply inside the Tor Browser app for Android. The market layout adapts to a narrow screen, and the queue and the captcha behave exactly as they do on a desktop.