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Most of the onion links that I copy paste in DuckDuckGo on tor browser show 'invalid onionsite address'. Even the very common ones like the url for torch. I tried connecting with a bridge, it didn't help. Now I don't have much idea at all about how it works, but I read an answer on quora related to my issue and it said to add this line in the torrc file- 'FascistFirewall 1', so I did.. still nothing.

I opened the DuckDuckGo onion search engine. Then I tried to paste the url for torch in there. Many clearnet search results came.. and above the results a pop up said 'You are trying to reach an onion/hidden service. To access cnkj6nippubgycuj.onion via web you will have to use Tor Browser.' But I am already searching all this from Tor browser itself.. I have connected to tor browser. So why does it say that, why doesn't the link open? This one onion chatroom that I have been accessing for a few days, it always opens no problem. It is an onion link too, so why don't other onion links open?

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Onion services with short urls are called "V2" addresses. For example, cnkj6nippubgycuj.onion is a V2 address. These addresses have been deprecated as of July of last year and you can't reach them anymore. Here is the page on the Tor Website talking about this.

Here's an example of a V3 address. This is to the Tor Project's blog.

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