Are you prepared for the day the #internet splits?
On the clearnet you will be
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Unable to watch porn.
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Required to give your real name and ID in order to use social media.
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Arrested for “mean tweets”, “anti-government views”, “liking subversive memes”, etc
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Only be allowed to use approved applications from Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc
On #Tor and #I2P you can still be free.
What you can do to prepare
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Set your downlink speed to 10-15mbps to acclimatize yourself
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Encourage app developers to host their applications on Onion and Eepsite domains. (Git repos, fdroid repos, linux distro repos, etc)
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Run all applications that support SOCKS5 over the Tor SOCKS port (9050) (#Fdroid, #Signal, #SimpleX, #AntennaPod, etc)
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Use bookmarks or password manager notes to have the URLs of your commonly used programs, services, and repos (#Monero, #XMRBazaar, #Pitch, #Dread, etc.)
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Get used to text messages instead of audio or video calls. (Audio and video use UDP and generally give your real IP to either a central STUN server or the other peer. (it may be possible to force audio and video calls over TCP exclusively, but the latency would be high and therefore make the call unenjoyable.)
It does by disguising the location you’re accessing the website from, which may or may not have such laws.
A VPN does that as well without the issue of being blocked very often.
A VPN doesn’t build a chain of nodes and doesn’t rotate them.
The VPN provider knows your real IP. Tor exit node doesn’t.
Doesn’t matter how anonymous one is if the website blocks Tor traffic.
Nymvpn runs traffic through 2 or 5 nodes, depending on user setting. These nodes are not owned by Nym.
True, that usually costs money though, while Tor is free.
Sure Tor is free. Compared to what I pay for electricity and ISP, a vpn is very low cost.