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Netflix use IPFS? That's quite an endorsement and makes me take it a lot more seriously.
Developer tooling is a pretty limited part of their traffic probably
Would be curious to know how using IPFS for internal container distribution compares to using BitTorrent. IIRC BitTorrent has found similar uses in the past. Also, how well does BitSwap work when the underlying network is congested? Do IPFS nodes do any kind of congestion control?
IPFS and bittorrent don't do anything to protect the data you are uploading and your IP address.
Case in point: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/
Now every website you visit, any ad/tracker, any homecalling phone app can tell what movies and contents you watch and when you are at home. For years.
Saving Netflix's bandwith costs by sacrificing your privacy. IPFS and bittorrent don't do anything to protect the data you are uploading and your IP address. Case in point: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/ Now every website you visit, any ad/tracker, any homecalling phone app can tell what movies and contents you watch and when you are at home. For years.
Saving Netflix's bandwith costs by sacrificing your privacy. IPFS and bittorrent don't do anything to protect the data you are uploading and your IP address. Case in point: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/ Now every website you visit, any ad/tracker, any homecalling phone app can tell what movies and contents you watch and when you are at home. For years.
It never looked like an anonymizing tool to me; did anybody advertise it as such?
Saving Netflix's bandwith costs by sacrificing your privacy. IPFS and bittorrent don't do anything to protect the data you are uploading and your IP address. Case in point: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/ Now every website you visit, any ad/tracker, any homecalling phone app can tell what movies and contents you watch and when you are at home. For years.
I thought that ipfs is about high availability, fault tolerance, including some resistance against addressed censorship. It never looked like an anonymizing tool to me; did anybody advertise it as such?
People can be prosecuted or otherwise harassed for sharing contents on a P2P system.
> It never looked like an anonymizing tool to me; did anybody advertise it as such?
You are confusing "anonymizing" with "leaking a lot of information to the whole world".
They constantly "forget" to tell people about the huge security impact.
Saving Netflix's bandwith costs by sacrificing your privacy. IPFS and bittorrent don't do anything to protect the data you are uploading and your IP address. Case in point: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/ Now every website you visit, any ad/tracker, any homecalling phone app can tell what movies and contents you watch and when you are at home. For years.
I thought that ipfs is about high availability, fault tolerance, including some resistance against addressed censorship. It never looked like an anonymizing tool to me; did anybody advertise it as such?
In particular it's pointless to be able to circumvent censorship if you can't do so anonymously.
Saving Netflix's bandwith costs by sacrificing your privacy. IPFS and bittorrent don't do anything to protect the data you are uploading and your IP address. Case in point: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/ Now every website you visit, any ad/tracker, any homecalling phone app can tell what movies and contents you watch and when you are at home. For years.
I guess you mean "Making Netflix save bandwidth". You will get the same amount of data to watch the ninja turtles regardless if you use IPFS or not.
Would be curious to know how using IPFS for internal container distribution compares to using BitTorrent. IIRC BitTorrent has found similar uses in the past. Also, how well does BitSwap work when the underlying network is congested? Do IPFS nodes do any kind of congestion control?
You can't update a torrent, if the content changes you have to create a new one. IPNS helps with that. And you can't share pieces across different torrents, if some still have the old torrent, they share it separately from the new one even if the differences are minimal.
Saving Netflix's bandwith costs by sacrificing your privacy. IPFS and bittorrent don't do anything to protect the data you are uploading and your IP address. Case in point: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/ Now every website you visit, any ad/tracker, any homecalling phone app can tell what movies and contents you watch and when you are at home. For years.