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VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed VPN

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Re: VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed VPN

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Post by bufferoverflow »

johnpowell wrote: post #51

I refuse to use a browser with a cryptocurrency attached to it. It feels like the only reason it is being pushed so hard is so BAT holders can make a buck. It might be a great browser but I will always think of it as onecoin with a some chrome tossed in.

Who cares? You don't have to use the crypto part of it at all.

Re: VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed VPN

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Post by atoav »

bufferoverflow wrote: post #54
johnpowell wrote: post #51

I refuse to use a browser with a cryptocurrency attached to it. It feels like the only reason it is being pushed so hard is so BAT holders can make a buck. It might be a great browser but I will always think of it as onecoin with a some chrome tossed in.

Who cares? You don't have to use the crypto part of it at all.

Idk – with something as crucial as a browser I want the people who give it to me to have a clear and obvious incentive structure.

Re: VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed VPN

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Post by olah_1 »

johnpowell wrote: post #51

I refuse to use a browser with a cryptocurrency attached to it. It feels like the only reason it is being pushed so hard is so BAT holders can make a buck. It might be a great browser but I will always think of it as onecoin with a some chrome tossed in.

Attaching a crypt coin to it only makes sense if it's more fully decentralized. The fact that it is centralized is why it's confusing. We run the VPN and they get the money.

In something like Lokinet, the whole thing is distributed and the people that run the service nodes get rewarded with coins. But normal end users don't have to think about the coin at all.

Re: VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed VPN

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Post by olah_1 »

>we noted that existing dVPN designs fail to provide strong privacy guarantees...their decentralized nature requires strong guarantees on the traffic a dVPN node carries without violating a user's privacy, at any time.

I suggest looking into the Loki project https://loki.network/

I'm not completely sure how these two efforts compare, but Lokinet is essentially a more privacy protecting version of Tor.

Re: VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed VPN

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Post by blfr »

mirimir wrote: post #50
blfr wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which sites?

Not op, but it's my understanding that they can blacklist pretty much the same sites as for exit relays. So your email client may stop working, Also search sites, social media, etc.

Obviously, anyone can blacklist anyone for any reason on the Internet and relay nodes' IPs are public. But do they?

I run a relay node on my personal server and never had any issues. But 1) I rarely browse the Internet from that IP and 2) it's in OVH so if it were blacklisted, it could be because of that.

Re: VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed VPN

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Post by bufferoverflow »

atoav wrote: post #55
bufferoverflow wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who cares? You don't have to use the crypto part of it at all.

Idk – with something as crucial as a browser I want the people who give it to me to have a clear and obvious incentive structure.

You still didn't explain how a feature that you'd never use affects you in any negative way.

Every browser has features that you don't use.

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