#Clearnet
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SafetyDetectives' cybersecurity team recently discovered a database allegedly belonging to The Epoch Times being illegally sold on a clearnet forum.

If verified, this incident constitutes yet another threat to our privacy security.

Over 32 million people could be affected.
June 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
there is something about broad-spectrum OSINT tools that prevent them from surviving very long on the clearnet. they seem to attract DDoSes, or DMCAs, or the ancient, brutal tool of the human language: death threats.
May 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
3) The idea that the quality of accounts being exploited by this botnet would be available for $1/account on a shit tier clearnet open market is literally inconceivable.
4) The people who are selling these accounts are criminals who bought the account data from criminals.
April 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Molly's secondhand relayed excuse of "the botnet operator bought these accounts on a shit tier clearnet marketplace that is literally the first result for a search for 'buy Bluesky accounts'" does not match the actual pattern of the accounts being compromised and/or washed.
April 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Hundreds of dollars of compromised accounts! That absolutely do not come from the shit tier clearnet open market the person she's talking to named as his source!
April 12, 2026 at 3:27 PM
However. An authentically created account that's been email-verified and is more than a few months old with 1-10 followers will start around $1 per on the clearnet. (They're more expensive on the darknet.) From there, number of authentic followers increases the cost.
April 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM
The advertised Bluesky prices I see on clearnet but restricted registration forums seem to run around $100 per 10k followers the account has (so my 35k followers would get listed at $350). Again, advertised price and actual eventual sale price are not the same thing!
April 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM
and the smaller sites and lower value accounts usually lingering until the file (or a tranche of it) crosses over. Eventually, sooner or later, someone can't find another darknet buyer for the dump and sells it on the clearnet (starting with one of the restricted, invite-only forums).
April 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Then priced them accordingly. If you're seeing it on the clearnet, it's almost certainly tertiary recipients (the secondary recipients usually keep their exploitation on the darknet) and the quality (and price) of the account(s) being sold depends on how far down the chain of ownership they are.
April 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Solely from the accounts in the botnet that have tagged or reposted me, the compromised and washed accounts being used are of a quality level that would be filtered out LONG before the shit tier clearnet market with open listings anyone can access. Accounts of that quality are sold privately.
April 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Anyway! Back to our topic. When you look at a clearnet public listing for "buy Bluesky accounts" or whatever, you'll see wild ranges of prices, from a few cents to a few hundred dollars. There are SO MANY variables in the cost. The VERY cheapest are often garbage accounts made by the seller.
April 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM
thinking about how i posted the phrase "my flaccid and rapidly shrinking penis" on clearnet next to my real face
September 19, 2024 at 6:07 AM
duck duck go is great because I just found [REDACTED] recipes on the clearnet
October 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
narrative doomed 14yo furry with his first wolf fursona seeing "therian" on WikiFur 4 the first time in disbelief "people" are like this VS anthrofailure 24yo wolf bitch scouring clearnet for Mexican Wolf Species Survival Plan pdfs trying to figure out what model radio collar they use
July 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
And when it comes to homebrew DIY and trans raw chem suppliers; please for the love of god get off of clearnet and onto Tor as soon as possible.
December 5, 2024 at 11:30 AM
got an email from a clearnet site i bought drugs on before saying they're giving me an 100% off coupon which feels like the most obvious honeypot ever but also i love free drugs so :/
July 27, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Reminder that my blog is available at ryelkcbr65vy7pzx26c3rvxya54yuh5ciafth7p6d3p3phpgo2wkznid.onion should the clearnet block you
September 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It's obvious that weird anime porn is gone from the Western clearnet within the next 5-10 years. Make it while you still can cuz there is absolutely nothing stopping it from going away.
March 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
A lot of people are about to start having to DIY, and right now we rely extremely heavily on only a few suppliers who all primarily operate on clearnet, this needs to change immediately.
January 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I already run my own backend network that replaces all steaming services. If the clearnet collapses, I basically run my own.

Shit ain't nothing to me, man.
June 30, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Who posted the *worst* CSAM, which doesn't exist on the clearnet, and added his watermark to it
April 12, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Hey y'all, let's continue to BRING the engagement over to HERE. You haven't lived a peaceful day on the clearnet until you've spent it on a website like Bsky.

Not even kidding, the fact I block someone and their ICON is blurred for me feels like I'm in proper WPP.
"i still use twitter cuz my engagement is down on bluesky" i don't care about engagement im drawing hole for the love of the game
January 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
It sucks that it is but it is just. Over for NSFW content online, or at least on the clearnet. Oh well.
July 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
@diyhrt.market there's an outage right now on the clearnet diyhrt.market, is everything alright?
June 9, 2026 at 8:41 PM