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And nobody mentions:
1. Tor might still be backdoored by NSA/Darpa.
2. There is also i2p

This.

Like think about it.. how do they catch the biggest market owners so quick.. think about evo , alpha bay..

They were all high skilled, very well educated hackers.. they didn’t make a mistake over the years and yet they got caught so easily..

Its open source. If you want to look for backdoors yourself, go on ahead
As far as Alphabay goes, this podcast has some good information on how they got caught. It wasn't necessarily Tor that was the problem. See, when you signed up for Alphabay, you got a welcome email. In the header of this email was the address "pimp_alex_91@hotmail.com." That told the FBI that the person behind it was likely named Alex, and was also born in 91 since so many people put their birthdays at the end of their emails for some reason. They asked Microsoft for information about pimp_alex_91@hotmail.com, and found out that it was also linked to a LinkedIn account owned by Alexandre Cazès who was born in 1991.

There is a lot more to the story, so I recommend listening to it. I highly recommend this podcast because it shines a lot of light on various cybersecurity events with credible sources.

*edit* turns out I have already responded to that post a couple weeks ago. Oops. I will leave this comment up though because that is a lot of information I wanted to share, that no one has brought up yet. Fun rabbit holes to go down