Privacy @lemmy.ml Super_gamer46861 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

A web browser extension for accessing I2P network anonymously

https://github.com/umutcamliyurt/I2Proxy

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anonymous

browser extension

these two do not mix well. almost any extension can be detected by a site and used to fingerprint you.

https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/
- You actually can use I2P with JS disabled as many eepsites work without it.
  
  Yes you're right, but disabling JS also makes you stand out way more wrt fingerprinting, and you can still be fingerprinted with HTML/CSS, TLS and other methods.
- That is not true. On chrome, they could be fingerprinted using the way that extensions load remote assets (which I dont think is still possible). On Firefox, that has not been possible (maybe ever but at least for a while). The way that extensions are fingerprinted requires detecting the way they interact with the web pages DOM, which is not something many extensions do.
  
  check out how creepjs implements detection for many common extensions...
- I don't see any extension info and I don't see how there could be any. There isn't any api for gaining this info in ff at the very least.
  
  There are other issues, but most extensions can in fact not be detected by websites, unless they specifically add something that makes them detectable.
  
  perhaps you should look up how creepjs implements detection for known extensions
I2P is really cool tech, wish more people knew about it. In a similar vein: #hyphanet (formerly #freenet) and #nostr
- and yggdrasil and lokinet
  
  Lokinet is sus with its model imo. Unlike i2p, the idea of which is lowering the bar for being a node, it raises the bar impossibly high for most of us. If you have the insane sum it requires to host a node, it would be more useful to the world if you spend it on hosting good Tor or i2p nodes imo.
- Is there anything actually interesting on it, or is it all just drugs and CP like the onion darknet?
  
  Technologically, I2P handles large data transfers much more efficiently than TOR. That makes I2P useful for torrenting large files like Linux ISOs.
What is i2p?
- A P2P application for anonymous communication. There's chat rooms, forums, the whole range of things, all peer-to-peer, all decentralized, all built with privacy and anonymity as a feature.
- The deep web

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