after reading some stuff today i decided that finally i'm going to start using #tor with my #nostr... set up foxyproxy to use tor on a whitelist and put my main nostr clients on it
i dream of one day finally completing the task of writing a lightning powered multi-hop anonymising proxy protocol as i was working on in 2022 but this will do for now
hm it just occurs to me that even though it's anonymising the connection to the server, which is just serving an app, it's not doing anything to my relays lol
just added all my relays to the list, i don't see any change in how things seem to be working
maybe this is a result of the fantastic optic fibre network i'm connected to
What was the stuff you read?
I don't know enough about nostr privacy tbh
Yeah I just recently set up tor on my phone for use with nostr, mostly so I could connect to my own relay over tor.
The problem I've found with that is, I occasionally have to turn for off (using orbot) to access something on internet, and sometimes its even a nostr thing, which means my client is talking to my relay without tor. And I'm nowhere near techy enough to fix it
yeah, that shit grinds my gears hard
I don't know what's going on there either, but I'm able to specify which apps use tor right in Orbot.
Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that. When I tried using it, it just killed my internet entirely. I have no idea why, but my phone refused to connect to the WiFi
Don't you just love it when tech makes no sense? Lol! I get weird problems like this all the time on my laptop. Forces me to learn the ins and outs of UNIXlike systems though, and problem solving in general.
My brain just isn't techy enough. If I find a good tutorial, I'm set, but I won't remember anything 2 days later
i think what you want is for it to use the relay for some specific set of addresses or to not use it for some specific set of addresses, idk if orbot can make that easy
it's a bit more achievable on linux
this is also partly why i'm kinda like... hmmm i think i like it that if i lost my phone and it was still unlocked and someone digs around in it they can't do shit... even the bank app won't be accessible to them without my fingerprint or teh passcode, and it can't receive my emails or nothin
would be a hassle tho
anyway, my suggestion is just don't do normie shit on the phone if you wanna do freedom shit on the phone, get a normie phone for normie shit and probably... leave it at home so you don't think of doing normie shit and getting $5 wrench attacked
That's actually my current strategy. The poppy phone gets around. The good one stays home
