Pode ser o problema do seu ambiente de rede.
Eu uso o site de cebola do duckduckgo https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion
como um exemplo, ele funciona bem no ambiente de rede local ou no ambiente de AWS EC2.
$time curl -I --proxy socks5h://localhost:9050 https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 13:51:35 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 5499
Connection: keep-alive
ETag: "5b4d156e-157b"
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=0
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Content-Security-Policy: default-src https: blob: data: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'; frame-ancestors 'self'
X-XSS-Protection: 1;mode=block
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Referrer-Policy: origin
Expect-CT: max-age=0
Expires: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 13:51:34 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache
Accept-Ranges: bytes
real 0m2.235s
user 0m0.048s
sys 0m0.016s
Extrair <title>
info
curl -fsL --proxy socks5h://localhost:9050 https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion | grep 'title'
<title>DuckDuckGo — Privacy, simplified.</title>