I haven't been to the deep web in a few years, is it crawling with fbi now or what?

Is it safe to browse?

Sure.

Is it safe to look for illegal content there?

I sure as hell wouldn't.

Besides, it's damn near impossible to find an active .onion. I went on there for the first time in years a couple months back, and every site was down. Even TorDir is down.

I still regret not buying Bitcoin by the thousand when they sold for cents on the marketplaces of old Tor.

I'm a paranoid guy by nature, but even I'm not dumb enough to believe that the government gives two shits about me buying a small amount of DMT on the net.