Eli5: Why we can’t access all “levels” of internet with a normal browser?

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Eli5: Why we can’t access all “levels” of internet with a normal browser?

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Normal browser looks up the IP address based on the URL, sends an HTTP(S) request to that IP address and gets a response.

If you want to buy drugs this doesn’t work. If your browser knows the server’s IP address, so do the feds. The feds know where every IP address is, so they go to that house and arrest the drug seller.

So these extra systems are invented to hide your IP address