Nexus market mirrors, as published on this site
nexusb2l7fmqnefwphyy7m5zjhlkytlbo7qbb5lu5dlczr3azgii2gyd.onionnexusma2iqgauqqvjcgds4ckv5xbf272tkfagq4epojjhsgleqpwxiqd.onionnexusabcd6tyfhdwilyitaqiri6tisj2v2hueyjuj6qkvd6azvi5tuqd.onionPublished as supplied. This site does not probe an onion, so nothing here is a claim that a given address opens for you right now.
A bookmark for a nexus market mirror is the string saved into the browser itself. One click and the address bar fills, without a keyboard or a paste in the middle.
What it is
A bookmark for a nexus market mirror is the onion string saved inside the tor browser itself, in the bookmarks store the browser keeps between sessions. The reader clicks the bookmark, and the address bar fills with the string the bookmark was saved from. There is no keyboard input, no clipboard step and no page to read. The bookmark is the whole path.
This is the fastest path in the rubric. It is also the one most likely to keep a stale string alive after everything else has moved on. A bookmark saves the string the reader was on the day the bookmark was made, and it keeps that string ready to open on any subsequent day, whether or not the mirror is still there.
What a bookmark preserves
- The string
- The full onion address as it was in the address bar on the day the bookmark was saved. Not a screenshot of it, not a title for it, the actual run of characters.
- The label
- The bookmark title the reader gave the entry, or the page title the browser used at save time. Titles are for the reader and never travel to the address bar.
- The folder
- The folder the bookmark sits in, if the reader organised the store into folders at all. Most bookmark stores end up as a single flat pile.
- The order
- The position the bookmark takes on the toolbar or the sidebar. This matters only to the reader who saved the bookmark, and it is a strong recall aid for that reader alone.
How a bookmark ages
A bookmark ages by not moving. The row does not update when a mirror rotates. The row does not warn when the string it holds has stopped answering. The row does not know it is old. The store simply keeps the bookmark as saved, forever, until the reader opens it and finds out for themselves. If the reader opens the tor browser once a month, the bookmark can be up to a month behind.
A bookmark also ages by getting pinned into muscle memory. The reader opens the same bookmark from the same slot on the same bar for weeks, and stops looking at the row on the way to opening it. That is fine while the string in the row is still the right one. It becomes a problem the first time the string is not, because the reader is not looking at what they are clicking.
Lifeline
- Saved into the browser store
- On the bookmarks bar, one click from opening
- Left behind when the mirror rotates
What the path drops
- The context around the string on the page it was saved from. The page might have carried a warning, an update note or a signature. None of that survives into the bookmark row.
- Any freshness the string had at save time. Whatever was current then is what the bookmark opens now, whether or not that is still true.
- The source the reader used to arrive at the string. A bookmark saved from a signed list looks identical to a bookmark saved from a random forum post, months later.
- The reader's own attention. A pinned bookmark stops being read after the second or third use, and starts being clicked as a shape.
What to check when opening a bookmark
- The address bar shows the same run of letters the bookmark used to open on. If the run differs, the bookmark has been edited or replaced.
- The prefix reads as it did the last time the reader looked at it consciously. Every reader who uses bookmarks eventually stops looking at the prefix, and that is when a swapped bookmark works.
- The bookmark itself is where the reader left it. A bookmark that has been moved out of its usual folder is one someone or something rearranged.
- The bookmark title still reads as the label the reader wrote. A title that has been changed by another process should be looked at closely before it is opened.