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I know of:

  • TOR (and the hidden wiki and ahmia to find stuff on it)

  • I2P (don't know how to find any good sites on it)

  • Zeronet (know very little about it, I kept hearing a bunch of people say it'll put CP on your computer by accident)

I used to use Bitmessage a long time ago, before it kept breaking. Tell me as much as you know, or where to find out. Thank you.

I know of: - TOR (and the hidden wiki and ahmia to find stuff on it) - I2P (don't know how to find any good sites on it) - Zeronet (know very little about it, I kept hearing a bunch of people say it'll put CP on your computer by accident) I used to use Bitmessage a long time ago, before it kept breaking. Tell me as much as you know, or where to find out. Thank you.

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I feel overwhelmed, but these are good lists.

Can you tell me whether the stuff I mentioned in the OP about Zeronet is true or not?

Edit: Also, why use Tor v. I2P v. Freenet v. Zeronet v. etc.? Do they all have their specific niche use-cases?

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I wouldn't use zeronet, in fact, while there are a lot of options, as far as I'm concerned, the lighter the better, in terms of footprint/installation

zeronet is pretty "invasive" not in terms of privacy but in terms of installation, I don't even have a clear idea of what gets installed and what keeps on working or not once shut down. And it's even more of a problem on a phone because of the little control you're offered over the overall machine

I'm all clearnet, I just use a web browser in incognito mode (so I don't have to clean my cache all the time) with ublockorigin, that's all. And I don't or extremely rarely go on facebook, sometimes I go on twitter to grab a link, and I have zero account over there, same for facebook same for youtube no account, in fact I'm a big lurker, I rarely register anywhere

That's for the overall philosophy, don't put your dick in crazy. At the same time I'm here lol

I shouldn't even tell you about all this, but well, I'm a nobody. I'm not super hackman up to super hackshit. I read the news. Mostly zerohedge btw

But I'm tempted to start using freenet again. Last time I tried to install it, the graphical interface was lame and it was long ago, and the graphical interface is for total noobs for a quick try if memory serves, it's not intended to be used that way, it's just a convenient way for a try. And something went wrong it didn't work but really, I didn't try hard it was like poof let's click here done, work doesn't work, ok ciao. I haven't done it seriously

Why freenet? Because it's mature, it's rather old, it has its reputation. The only downside of freenet last time I heard (again long ago) is thatnit's rather slow, it's not intended for video streaming, but it's perfectly suited for text/image based communication

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu9gM3_gIfM

And IPFS also, looks interesting, but same deal it's limited in some fashion