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When you use Tor hidden services:

Tor is slow
Your ISP knows you are using Tor
Mempool.space does not know your IP address
Mempool.space knows what was searched and when it was searched and that it was searched from their Tor hidden service

When you use mempool's open source explorer from your own node:

Thanks for this.

In general, how do you find onion addresses?

Privacy-aware websites include this HTTP header:

Onion-Location: http://mempoolhqx4isw62xs7abwphsq7ldayuidyx2v2oethdhhj6mlo2r6ad.onion/

Privacy-aware web browsers will acknowledge this header and add this to the URL bar when you visit the site on clearnet.

Click the "purple" button to enter The Onion.

Tor Browser, Mullvad Browser, Brave Browser, etc.

Aha! Thanks, I think I may have occasionally seen that out of the corner of my eye, but never really noticed it.

So that's how people are finding onion addresses!