First connection

Opening BlackOps Market for the first time

This is the whole path from a clean Tor Browser install to the login screen, with no steps left to guess. If something goes sideways, each stage below says what to do about it, so you are never stuck staring at a spinning circle wondering whether the blackops market tor setup is broken or just slow.

The steps

1. Install Tor Browser from torproject.org only. The download page shows a signature checksum; if your copy came from a mirror, an "accelerated download" site, or a modified build, start over. The blackops market tor browser is the stock one, and that is on purpose.
2. Before you paste anything, check the address from the block at the top of this page against the three checks. Thirty seconds now saves a wasted circuit later.
3. Paste the address into the address bar. Do not type it by hand; onion strings are long and a single wrong character sends you to a stranger's site.
4. Wait for the splash page that says "Checking Your Browser". Do not refresh it, do not close the tab, do not open a second one. It reloads on its own.
5. When the dark interface appears, read the onion printed on the login screen itself and compare it with the one in your browser's address bar. They should match exactly. That is the point of the printed address: it is your proof you are on the right blackops market onion.
6. Log in, or create an account. The details for that are on the login page.

What you will actually see

First comes the entry gate. It is a plain light page with the words BLACK OPS on it, the line "Please wait while we check your browser", and a note that says "Do not refresh this page". After a few seconds it reloads itself and the check continues. The gate also asks you to make sure you have disabled javascript, and that line is not a bug and not a sign you installed the wrong browser. The market deliberately runs without JavaScript at the entry point, which is why it keeps working even when your security level is set to Safest. Seeing that request means the page loaded correctly, not that something failed.

Once the check passes, the gate swaps for the dark UI: the login screen, with the current onion address printed right on the page. That printed address is a second signal: a lookalike site shows its own different address in the bar, and in a hurry that difference is easy to miss. If the gate keeps spinning for more than a minute, click the lightning bolt next to the shield icon to get a New Circuit, wait a bit, and if it still does not move, try the second or third address from the block at the top. A blackops market link that loads on one circuit and not another is a routing problem, not a market problem.

Settings that matter

If you already run Tails or Whonix, that is a fine extra layer on top of everything here. It is an option, not a requirement; the market does not check for it, and a stock Tor Browser on a normal machine gets you to the same login screen.

When it is slow

A slow load is usually the network, not the market. The quickest test: open any other onion site. If that one crawls too, your circuit is just bad and no amount of waiting on the blackops market tor page will fix it. Click the lightning bolt for a New Circuit, give it a minute, and if the first address from the block still does not come up, move to the second and then the third. Sometimes one route is congested and the next one is clear.

If every address from the block is dead at once, that is a different situation, and the downtime page walks through what to check in that case, including how to tell a real outage from a local routing problem. And if you are asking how to access blackops market from a phone, the answer is the same flow: Tor Browser for Android or iOS, paste the address, wait out the gate, compare the printed onion.