Privacy and anonymity are the underlying reasons for using the Dark Web, but why?

And how?

Privacy and anonymity are necessary for a functioning society. People want to feel safe and not monitored or investigated.

Even with the proliferation of social networks, and the oversharing of personal information there, many people still want to keep their data private, and to keep their personal information to themselves.

The internet provides a way to communicate and share, but as time goes by, its becoming a way for vendors to collect information about us to offer us products which are supposed to be what we want, according to our behavior on the network. It's also way for governments to monitor us, and a way for scam artists and criminals to collect information about us for their malicious intents.

Using the Dark web allows people to communicate, buy, connect and work privately and anonymously.

At least that's the idea. As with all technologies or environments,...