If you have the interest and time you should do a deep dive on NymVPN/NymProject
My first impression is it seems like many improvements over VPNs and even Tor in some aspects, but would be interested in your opinion 🤔
Myth: Browsers can Fool AI by “Spoofing”
Reality: Spoofing is just lying with your words.
Even back in 2016, Google could detect spoofing:
Google gives your client a challenge to draw. This image is from their (now ancient tech) 2016 whitepaper: [12]
Then these drawings are analyzed at the pixel level,
And compared to what that browser, OS, and hardware can normally produce,
This is why the Chameleon Browser Extension whitelists Google and Cloudflare [14]
Because their app, and those like it, just LIE with “user-agents” (their words)
You can’t hide the fundamental nature of browsers,
For example, when someone asked if they should block the specific type of JavaScript (that hides your screen size), the GrapheneOS dev said: [10]
In other words, they fingerprint you based on what you choose to block,
And if you turn off JavaScript,
Enjoy the rest of the fun meme slideshow or get sources:
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/myths-of-privacy/fake-or-unrealistic-solutions-smashed.html
Discussion
We're a hostile direct competitor to them. They are two things:
a) a mixnet that's too slow for web traffic.
This is okay, but it should be packaged into chat apps itself. I doubt Monero users will put transactions through it over Tor nodes. I doubt it has any purpose for email, as most people are brainwashed with proton and setting up email on a VPS is beyond most people. So the only real use is chat apps.
b) 2 hop Wireguard.
For this we are a direct hostile competitor. They ignore the browser fingerprint which is a far greater threat, and they entrust random fucks to host it. Once we decentralize out, our approach will be much better.
I guess you are so busy spamming about Monero, you do not want to spend $1 of Monero, to beta test a Monero-focused network. You'd rather spend your time with the VCs printing money to do propaganda, which by the way is sponsored by the European Union's government. And lacks censorship resistance on the gateways. What a great way to control content, then to remove Tor Onion DNS, and replace it with Nym gateways whose IP can be found out.
Good points. Didn't realize you were a hostile direct competitor. I was genuinely asking because I figure you know more about this topic. I don't have a strong opinion on it mostly because I don't know enough about it.
What intrigued me originally were that some elements of Nym *seemed* like an improvement over your typical VPNs at obfuscating traffic (mixing, fake packets, uniform size packets, multiple hops, etc - in theory). I know it's not a real replacement over Tor/I2P because of the censorship aspects you mentioned.
I've never paid for Nym, and don't currently use it, but I've tried out the free version a few months back and it was noticeably slower at loading pages even with 2-hop. Some apps didn't work at all with it.
I've not tried your software yet, but I will when I get a chance.
Guilty on the Monero spamming 🤣
alright thanks bro. and speaking of monero, prehaps you may have some comments on the most recent podcast