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The “Nude” Ultimatum: Privacy is Dead (the.unknown-universe.co.uk)

submitted 3 days ago by TheIPW@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The UK government is giving Apple and Google three months to build on-device scanning infrastructure. This isn't about child safety; it's about the end of private devices and the death of the "nothing to hide" fallacy.

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago

I have only heard of Yggdrasil recently so I don't know much about it. Tor works quite well but I2P has disappointed me every time I've tried to use it. Mainly because of its connection speeds.

I can pull blocks from my Monero node at 5 mbps over Tor hidden services, but only about 40 kbps over I2P. That makes Monero completely unusable.

When you set up I2P on your computer, it takes you through a step where it supposedly measures your bandwidth, but it's a really sucky test, and sets your bandwidth incredibly low, and you have to manually up it if you want more. Like for example, I have a 100 MBPS symmetrical fiber connection and it wanted to set my bandwidth with the automatic test to like 600 kbps.

I think that's part of why the network sucks so much because the automatic test doesn't nearly set your bandwidth to what it should be. So it's not taking advantage of nearly the bandwidth that's available on connections.