movie-web was just taken down with all its repos, Yuzu was taken down, then suyu forked it on gitlab and was taken down, countless clones of nintendo games, platform emulators, and a bunch of other things are taken down because they are hosted on the clear web.
If you’re a dev and planning to write software for piracy, host it on I2P!
What’s the advantage of I2P over Tor? It’s been a while since I used I2P, but it always seemed like “Tor with more open ports and higher CPU usage” to me.
It’s important to note that if you set up Gitlab over any kind of hidden service, you disable CI/CD systems, because a CI/CD pipeline doing a HTTP call will easily de-anonimyse the server. Set up appropriate firewalls and disable any features you may not want, or you’ll easily find yourself de-anonymised!
I2P is better for P2P stuff. TOR is not. If you are I2P you can also take advantage of anonymous torrents with qbittorrent or the builtin torrent client.
I have a few nodes and the CPU usage is minimal. But there’s also a C++ implementation if you like that better.
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https://geti2p.net/en/comparison/tor
A lot of those advantages seem very… subjective. Peer-to-peer in itself doesn’t have any advantage, but the comparison seems to be written by someone who thinks it does.
Purely because of the larger user base I would pick Tor over I2P in this scenario but for piracy in general I2P does seem like a much better fit. I do wonder how the situation will change if Veilid ever takes off, though.
Tor is being rewritten in Rust :3
How is that coming along?
idk really, this is the site of the project: https://arti.torproject.org/
It looks to be quite active. That’s nice.
I hate C as much as most programmers, but there are very few low-level networking tools that make me think “I wish this was written in Java”. At least Tor is being rewritten into Rust, so the point will be moot soon enough.
The Java 8 + ant instructions on Github also make me suspect that they’re not using a particularly recent version of Java either. There are even components that seem to be written for Java 6, and Java 7 runtimes seem to be the default target for most operating systems.
I was sort of hoping to see I2P be an early adopter of Project Loom for high performance, but I guess they’re focused more on keeping old and outdated computers compatible.
i2p allows torrenting over it
Is that the only advantage at this point? I feel like you’d have to be downloading/seeding some shady fucked up shit if just using a VPN isn’t enough. Though maybe I’m thinking about this from the pov of someone who mostly leeches their torrents.
I don’t really see the advantage in the context of hosting a Gitlab server for developing pirating tools.
I thought you asked about advantages/differences in general.
I see, I should’ve been more specific. Apologies for the confusion!