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IPFS does this by design. Everything is content-addressed so you immediately know if you've seen the resource before. This also enables chunk-level deduplicatio

• chc4 11y ago
  Only your direct peers can, and they can't tell if you got the content to increase your fitness score or because you wanted the asset for yourself. Peers are incentivized to pull as many assets as they can (which prevents torrent death) in order to build reputation.
  • theptip 11y ago
    I think this is overly optimistic; as soon as you pull down a rare asset you have leaked information, since a peer that's farming would presumably work down the list of assets ranked by some measure of popularity, and would be unlikely to bother collecting obscure content. This sort of system helps against some sorts of snooping, but certainly not nation-state adversaries.