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Software (“Akoopa”) forks Tor Browser to browse the web on torrents -- tor users may finally get an alternative to Cloudflare better than archive.org (fosdem.org)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/tor@infosec.pub
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cross-posted from: https://libretechni.ca/post/786769

FOSDEM presenter Jah Kosha will pitch the idea that the web can be made inclusive by introducing some middleware called #akoopa to share websites using torrents. This is severely needed. I cannot even read legal statutes that I am bound by because the gov publishes law on exclusive websites.

It’s similar to my youtube-torrent idea:

https://libretechni.ca/post/420147

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[–] 3 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

I just learned about Ceno Browser today, which sounds like the same thing?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    Looks like not exactly the same thing but it appears to solve the same problem.

    Ceno is apparently for mobile devices and no mention of using torrents(spoke too soon; indeed it uses torrents). But thanks for mentioning it because I will be eager to try it out.

    (edit) after looking deeper it looks like there is a Windows version (but no linux?) In any case, I’ll try the android version.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Funny bc i've had the same thought ever since I discovered torrents, why isn't the whole internet p2p like that?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    I think it must be quite complicated to implement. Torrents traditionally work on static data. An ISO image or mpeg4 doesn’t change, so the hash locks in the content and makes it possible to share pieces and assemble them with integrity checking. I have no idea how they are doing that with a webpage, which could potentially change every second. I don’t know if they have a way to add updates to a torrent of an existing page, or if they construct a new torrent on a snapshot basis.

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