Use i2p on Android with Firefox/Ironfox
Use i2p on Android with Firefox/Ironfox
On Android/GrapheneOS, Firefox/Mull/variants is the only browser with the needed proxy settings to use with i2p.
After a bit of searching, it works very well!
As i2p servers you can use "i2p", "i2pd" (more minimal but more efficient) or "InviziblePro" which bundles some implementation of i2p.
I am using i2pd currently, and it works well.
Installed the apps with Obtainium
- Mull from the DivestOS F-Droid repo
- i2pd from the purplei2p F-Droid repo
- MullvadVPN from Github, Orbot from the guardianproject repo (as fallback if clearnet sites are used)
The browser can open .i2p and clearnet sites, using a little hack:
network.proxy.no_proxies_on to !.i2p
that about:config hack is neat, but it would be much betterif firefox supported container tabs like on desktop.
Unfortunately since they moved back to their mercury based internal code forge, it's become quite difficult to track the state of unimplemented features, so who knows if they even have it in mind
yes absolutely
They ditched git? Really?
it seems so. makes so much sense I can't even comprehend it
Dumb question: can anyone host a i2p site on a personal device? For instance, if I leave a PC or old phone connected to the network, how easy/hard is it to configure so I have a working site accessible to everyone on the network?
it shouldn't be hard if you run your own I2P router. I think you so this in the tunnel manager menu
Anyone can host a site. Just keep it up for like a month without a pause so that it can be discovered.
Then go to a domain registrar and get a domain name. I2p sites have BASE32 names, kinda like onion addresses. But they can also use shorter names like postman.i2p
If you register such a name, the site will become more discoverable as those registrars likely share the sites, you might appear in some lists, people connect to you, add you to their address book and forward stuff to you.
is there anything interesting on i2p? (not sarcastic, genuinely questioning)
all i could find were things easier to get on the clearnet.
What would you expect?
The tor network has more common stuff, drugs etc.
I2p meanwhile is just really good for anonymity. I think using it for messengers is the best use. I was able to find a bunch of stuff, and yes unlike the dark web this would mostly be also there on the clearnet, mainly because there is no such business on i2p I guess
Just random people offering services for free, a few pads, pastebins, fileservers
You can find quite some cool stuff actually, but I think the main advantage is using it for messaging
And unlike i2p, i2pd also doesnt really use much battery? I could totally keep that on all day
What is I2p?
Magic