Unprecedented Milestone!
Tor hides locations. Arweave ends the concept of locations.
Today Simplified Privacy presents an original, innovative, and trail-blazing framework for fully interactive Arweave websites with unprecedented privacy and censorship resistance. This open-source video gallery features bi-directional comments from the community, where the audience can comment with an Arweave wallet, but WITHOUT the need for a centralized server for any piece of the social network. Raw blockchain only.
Next level privacy: The website owner does not know which gateway you used, or if you even viewed it.
Unlike fraudulent Odysee, which is a Cloudflare front-end prone to censorship, our system features fully self-sovereign RSS feeds that can be plugged into RSS apps such as AntennaPod. Keeping your videos on Odysee because they typed the word "Arweave", is like keeping your funds in a Custodial KYC Exchange Account, because they typed the word "Bitcoin".
Further our framework has a membership fee to comment, to not only replace Google/Youtube, but also Substack/Patreon. Additionally, we're rolling out a new swap site to get Arweave quickly, privately, and securely backed by our XMRBazaar deposit, and auto-signed with PGP.
View it on any Gateway:
Germany: https://shadow.arweaveblock.com
Italy: https://shadow.jaxtothehell.xyz
New Jersey: https://shadow.vilenarios.com
Utah: https://shadow.zigza.xyz
Singapore: https://shadow.araoai.com
Press Release:
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/arweave/interactive-self-sovereign-video-site-links.html
Swap Site:
Tor doesn't hide locations, it hides IP addresses. What makes Tor special is that is has decentralized trust, in othe words, no matter what, there are always multiple people who would have to be malicious in order to associate the IP address with the browsing activity.
Arweve sounds far worse, requiring absolute trust in your gateway. Am I wrong? Or is your comparison bullshit?
Hey I'm sorry to hear you're back to malicious spamming. Tor is not special, it's a centralized team that picks who is allowed to remain a node. Tor hides what IP you're coming from the website owner, while Arweave does not even notify the owner.
I am unwilling to read your malicious spam, please actually read the content before mouthing off.
Is any part of my post addressed by your own? You insist that there is something vitally important which I didn't read, but apparently it wasn't worth it for you to even so much as copy and paste it onto Nostr? I wrote out a response specially for your note responding to some of the things you said. Does that sound like low effort spamming to you?
You are right that Tor's team of independent directory authorities vote on what nodes get excluded from the network, but that doesn't contradict what I said about Tor. For the users, Tor provides decentralized trust.
Is Arweave a cryptocurrency? A darknet? What is the threat model? Y'all compare yourself with Tor, but I need someone to walk me through this.
An IP address is a physical location. This is true for where packets come from, like a VPN. And it's true for hosting sites, like a Tor Onion. Tor hides this. It hides where the guy comes from, and it hides server locations where hosted with an onion.
Arweave is a new way to do the internet, a parallel society where physical locations are less relevant, because all content is everywhere. Things aren't addressed as going to an IP or hosted on an IP, but instead by the content.
The purpose of this is similar to Nostr. It can do nearly any type of activity the internet can do. And as far as threat model, it's not designed for drugs/illegal the same way Tor is. In this case, advocating for using for videos, blogs, podcasts.
I don't understand your platform's architecture. You guys seem very reserved when it comes to any of the details. Nostr is a microblogging plaftorm comprised of relay operators running relay software and users running Nostr clients. Tor is a darknet platform comprised of volunteer node operators, volunteer directory authorities, and users who form onion circuits going therough the network in along an unpredictable route. Cloudflare is a content delivery network with servers all over the world and great protection against excessive traffic any website who they agree to host and work with.
What about you guys? Who are you? What service are you providing? Who is your platform is supposed to protect the privacy of? Viewers? Posters? Hosters? Yourselves? Is there anyone involved with your protocol that we are expected to trust and who we can't verify is tracking us? You said that your system provides privacy in addition to anonymity. How is it possible to provide privacy unless we already trust you? Are your servers somehow performing computations without being turned on, or sending communications without being connected to a network?
If you are going to start talking about such a fascinating topic and if you are going to pull such a bold take out of your ass where you claim to be better than Tor for privacy then you should give an explanation. You're leaving me hanging, I swear!
this info is all on our website and arweave's.
You are assigning homework for the privilege of engaging with you? Are you unable to articulate the answers to any of my questions concisely? It sounds like you could use some practice!
Your strategy is to attack us, to try to get me to defend our work because you're too lazy to read the same content on our site. So you think you're going to save time by being aggressive.
The issue with this strategy, is that you come across as so negligent, immoral, and dumb, that our organization's staff doesn't care about your opinion to begin with.
It seems like you guys provide a shitcoi- I mean, a blockchain technology. Your platform exists to provide privacy to users and servers. However unlike Tor, in order to use your platform users have to choose a 3rd party server to place absolute trust in, and unlike Tor, your platform provides no way to determine the server won't be malicious. I got all that from what you linked. Did I get any of it wrong? Walk me through this.
It's not our platform. We are users of a protocol, and the protocol hosts the data. We're just doing website design for dynamic interaction with the protocol. Unlike Nostr, which blasts your IP when you use the protocol. With Arweave, one can pick any gateway they like and only that gateway sees it. One could use Tor with Arweave. The main point is it's divorced from physical locations
Who designed that protocol Mister "it's not our platform?"
With Tor, your exit node doesn't see your IP address, only your traffic. Only your guard node sees your IP address, and your guard node has no idea what websites you are visiting.
I would never use a service like Nostr without a VPN at the very least. I would never use a platform like Arweave either. Trusting a single person not to spy on you and share your data with third parties is not sufficient for my threat model or for Tor's threat model.
You say that I'm so negligent, immoral, and dumb that you don't care about my (quite well substantiated tyvm) beliefs. And yet I notice you still take the time to respond to me, which I appreciate.
The arweave foundation designed the protocol, not Simplified Privacy. Our app is similar to a nostr client, it's a tool to use a protocol. And you can use a VPN/Tor with Arweave, that's fine.
