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Surprising to see that strong anonymity isn't built into Freenet 2023... i always associated FreeNet with anonymity.

Would be willing to speak to these anonimizing layers? Are they difficult to use? Do they offer the same level of anonymity?

>>jszymb+(OP)
The fred had "content filter" that sanitise content (e.g remove javascript, check pdf file for exploit)

I always thought it was a mistake.

>>jszymb+(OP)
I think my key realization was that the more serious threat was centralization, and so the focus with the new Freenet is decentralization. Anonymity systems can be built on the new Freenet - these will likely be based on mixnets or onion routing, in fact there will likely be a variety of options. They will be easy to use, in keeping with our overall philosophy that we want grandma to be a Freenet user.

Think of the new Freenet as a decentralized global operating system, on which people can build interoperable systems to do a wide variety of things. One of these will be an anonymizing proxy.

>>j16sdi+I
If you don’t want more privacy than what the browser gives by default, you don’t need content sanitizers.