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> Does anyone here have a feasible way to solve this? Current solutions like TOR, I2P, VPNs and/or mobile proxy services are just a matter of time and legality
by cookiengineer 5y ago
> Does anyone here have a feasible way to solve this?
Current solutions like TOR, I2P, VPNs and/or mobile proxy services are just a matter of time and legality until they come obsolete due to their publicly known nature.
I am convinced that the only way to solve this is by simply not downloading the website from its origin. The origin tracks you, so don't talk to them. Talk to your peers and receive a ledged copy of it instead.
The only problem is that this contradicts all that came after Web 2.0, because every website _wants_ unique identities for every person visiting them; including ETag-based tracking mechanisms of CDNs.
I think it's not possible with supporting Web Browser APIs the same way in JavaScript (as of now, due to fetch and XHR and how WebSockets are abused for HDCP/DRM to prevent caching), but I think that a static website delivering network with a trustless cryptography based peer-to-peer end-to-end encrypted statistically-correct cache is certainly feasible. I believe that because that's exactly what I'm building for the last two years [1].
[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth
- yunohn 5y agoWhile you’re not technically wrong about IP address hiding, that wasn’t my question. I’m asking if there’s any feasible way for ProtonMail to not have the ability to know which IP addresses connect to their services.
- cookiengineer 5y ago> I’m asking if there’s any feasible way for ProtonMail to not have the ability to know which IP addresses connect to their services. Maybe ProtonMail could offer an alternative .onion service? This way they couldn't legally be forced to give a way the IPs, because on the other end it's a TOR exit node anyways. And by design they cannot see the real IP from their point of view, so a legal enforcement would be useless.
- yunohn 5y agoThat’s a good point - mandating Tor usage. The Guardian also provides a Filedrop Onion service. Though I guess you could also access via Tor regardless, if not for the account creation stage.