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I found I2P much better than Tor network, and now it supports BitTorrent protocol too https://geti2p.net/en/docs/applications/bittorrent .

Why haven't the pirates migrated to I2P? Why are we still using clearnet and making people backout of seeding cause of DMCA?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

i've messed around with i2p, it requires much more technical knowledge than just torrenting and there's a bit of a learning curve to navigating and configuring it. plus it honestly hasn't changed much in years, and i'm not sure how much i trust the developers working on it. i do agree that it's better than tor though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Tor was really struggling and I wasn't looking forward to learning how to use something else safely. I2P was such a massively huge improvement at least for my use case.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Agreed. Even getting support over an issue (initially) was troublesome. But somehow I ended up solving it through other channels. But just like torrenting, or any other tech, once you get enough experience to solve issues on your own, things get a bit easy.

A tech being easy to grasp can be an issue too, leading to more script kitties messing in with the protocol.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you trust Tor or VPN? Tor was developed with the help of US intelligence to help build a anonymous network.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Read all of the source and research who hosts the relays to determine their trustworthiness. Decide for yourself

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I self-host my VPN and it's open source

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's great. But not everyone is interested learning and setting up their own VPS. If it was trivial no VPN service would be in business.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It is kinda trivial?
But it's primarily cost and service intensive.