nexusb2l7fmqnefwphyy7m5zjhlkytlbo7qbb5lu5dlczr3azgii2gyd.onionnexusma2iqgauqqvjcgds4ckv5xbf272tkfagq4epojjhsgleqpwxiqd.onionnexusabcd6tyfhdwilyitaqiri6tisj2v2hueyjuj6qkvd6azvi5tuqd.onionRun the check before you sign in. Open these in Tor Browser only. When the login screen loads, compare the onion printed on the page against your address bar, reading from the end. If they differ, close the tab.
A holding page appears, does its check, and sends you back to itself. Round and round. The loop is usually caused by the thing people do when they are impatient.
What the gate is doing
Onion services get flooded, and the standard defence is to make every visitor do a small amount of work or wait a short time before being let in. The gate hands you a token when you pass. That token is what gets you through the door on the next request.
Why the loop happens
- The token did not stick. Cookies or storage blocked for the site means every visit is a first visit, forever.
- The circuit changed between passing the gate and using the token, so the token arrived from a different apparent visitor.
- You reloaded during the check. Each reload discards a nearly finished pass and starts the queue again.
- The gate is simply saturated and shedding, which looks the same from your side.
What to do
- Let one attempt complete without touching anything, even if it looks stuck. This alone clears most loops.
- Do not open the market in several tabs at once. Parallel attempts compete with each other for the same slot.
- If it still loops, take a new circuit for the site and make one clean attempt on the new path.
- If it loops on a new circuit, try a different mirror, which has its own gate and its own queue.
What not to do
Do not lower the browser security level to get past a gate, and do not install anything that promises to solve it for you. A gate is an inconvenience. Weakening the browser to skip it trades a two minute wait for a permanent problem.
How to read the result
Normal. Gates are noisy and a single retry is expected behaviour.
Token and circuit fell out of step. Nothing was wrong with your account.
The market is under a heavy flood. Come back in a few hours rather than grinding at it.
Other integrity signals
The address on the page is not the address in your bar
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IntegrityLogged out on every page you open
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IntegrityThe page loads but half of it is missing
Unstyled pages and dead buttons on a Nexus mirror usually mean the assets did not arrive, not that the page is a fake. How to tell the two apart quickly.
Procedures that apply here
Requesting a new circuit, and when it actually helps
The single most useful control in Tor Browser for onion problems, what it does, what it costs and which symptoms it fixes.
MethodChoosing which of the three mirrors to use
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MethodHow to take an honest reading of a mirror
A repeatable way to measure whether a Nexus mirror is slow, broken or fine, without tooling and without fooling yourself.