I2p

Is i2p going to fully replace TOR in the near future?

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no, because it's easier to browse the clearweb with tor than with i2p, and that's what most people use tor for

it has existed since 2003 and has less activity than before
truth is, no one cares

No, harder to use than tor.

how does it work? Is it better?

only russians use i2p and most sited suck balls

Gnunet will replace TOR, i2p, DNS, HTTP, and literally everything else.

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Decentralized peer-to-peer network. It's neat but the learning curve is too much for normies and your device acts as a node so you must keep it online 24/7 for it be well integrated into the network.

A network doesn't exist without support and content.

Do you have a machine to dedicate to being an I2P peer? Do you have a site that people would want to visit---a killer app?

You all completely misunderstand the problem. These alternative network projects have neither adopters nor creators to succeed with.

Additionally, there are eepsites that served as proxies to access the clearnet from i2p but those are broken since I last made an attempt.

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>the learning curve is too much for normies
Sounds like a feature, not a bug.

Yes, it's very comfy. Kevinchan is pretty cool if you use i2p. Tor has too many normal niggers now. The majority of i2p criticism is that there is very little content. As implicates, more Anons should contribute content. I never got to live in a time where the internet was predominately used by White men, but I suspect these alternative nets are reminiscent of what once was.

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please stop telling tourists about i2p

So what makes i2p better than tor if you only use tor for .onion sites?

gnunet is a vaporware

Tor is a centralized privacy solution whilst i2p is a decentralized solution. Both have their merits and disadvantages. Tor has become popularized in the last few years whereas i2p will probably never reach the audience like Tor. You'll probably have to lurk moar on this topic when the schizos come out for their rants, I cannot even keep up with what they claim is better.

It would be wise to note, since i2p has a much smaller user base, it is easier to deanonymize. More traffic = more anonymity is a terrible take, but it is worth consideration on a network like Tor and especially i2p where there are a handful of consistent users and even fewer sites.

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Nope. It has its own following, but the only reason it gets talked about is when shit like that RCE exploit in Firefox dropped and everyone learned it affects Tor browsers as well.

No they aren't.
I just loaded duckduckgo from an i2p outproxy

Programs like this have alluded to being used "in the future" since forever. They first did this when crackdowns on regular P2P happened. Nobody changed to this. Then the next chance would have been where ISPs disconnect torrent pirates. It did not happen either. These slow programs where you funnel other people's content will never be popular.

On top of that, visiting onion sites using Tor Browser Bundle is easier than using this.

It's pretty easy to just put your site on both .onion and .i2p.

>Tor has become popularized in the last few years
Tor has been popular for over a decade now. Silk road 1.0 was 2011, and there were other popular sites that predate the silk road as well.

>since i2p has a much smaller user base, it is easier to deanonymize.
That's not really true. In fact, I'd argue that, in terms of absolute security, even as the network is today, i2p is better than tor. While it's definitely true that tor has much more traffic, and that this makes some attacks such as volume analysis and traffic analysis, this ability is obfuscated by the fact that, unlike tor, every user is routing traffic for every other user. This makes it much more likely for nodes to be outside of LEA's ability to observe. It also makes it somewhat harder (though likely not very much ) to tell when the user is actually using the network.

The p2p nature of i2p also makes MITM attacks highly impractical. nodes could attempt to diversify the IPs their tunnels use to maximize the chance that they're outside of LEA's jurisdiction. There are more i2p nodes than there are tor routers.

i2p's has two real failures imo. The first is that there is no browser bundle. The road to adoption is push button solutions. You download the magical browser and once you start it you can use it for whatever you want. The second is little outproxy support. i2p isn't intended for people trying to access the clear web, but if they kept a built in, up to date tor node built into i2p, or even as a plugin (for integration into a browser bundle), i2p would have a chance to actually gain a large userbase. That being said, it would still suffer from not being the first solution. I think a good workaround would be tor forcing all clients to be nodes. If they did that, then tor would immediately be better than i2p in nearly every way.

Needs to be simpler. See my post above

Agreed. browser bundles are a killer feature

Most people don't though, which is a shame