Im surprised when people are surprised that your ip is leaked when you use the internet. So the solution is to just use an image proxy and have them track everyones IP? People should use VPNs if they are worried about this stuff.
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I guess you can turn logs off.
Yeah, but then there's centralization and liability. Exactly what Nostr stands against.
The point of Nostr is that any generous soul can pay for a VPS and run a small simple-as-a-rock Nostr relay and help decentralize social media **without** liability.
But if using Nostr implies going through centralized proxies that consume large amounts of bandwidth and storage, and therefore they **must** be paid somehow... Well, then you either got the government's eyes on those (now) fewer "relay plus" owners, or someone willing to pay the bills in exchange for some juicy big data.
And this is a problem of the internet, not Nostr specific.
My advice would be to just use Tor. Clients should come with socks5 support so that people can browse through Tor with them. Problem solved.
Sure I agree with you to a point though, I don’t want this advertised all over Nostr.
If someone is keen enough to go searching for it, then they have to put in the effort, having it posted here like this isn’t good and I’m not happy about it-just saying.
So you would prefer the data be in the hands of the same suspicious people but everybody being unaware of it?
How is that "better"?
you’d think the letters TCP/IP might give it away. 🤓