(He/Him) Level 10 wizard studying the mystic arts. Major areas of research involve the transcendent properties of consequential impulses observed throughout the myco cosmos.

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  • So no, i2p won’t interact with the clearnet at all. So it doesn’t help with access to clearnet sites that are geoblocked. I never used VPNs for geoblocking specifically, just for torrenting, so this wasn’t in my list of use cases.

    It makes sense sticking with a VPN if you really need to access a site that is blocked in your country. Or you could use Tor for that, but Tor has its own issues.

    Also I’m still not familiar enough with I2P to know if it’s vulnerable to hostile takeover. It IS a completely different protocol from Tor though, so my guess would be it doesn’t have that same issue.







  • I did explain in another comment some general information about I2P. The one where I mention how it is a darknet but is much different than Tor.

    The reason many more people don’t use it yet is because it is hard to setup. That’s pretty much it. Similar to lemmy or other things that exist it is just difficult to get people using it unless it is significantly easier to use.

    However, recently things have gotten easier. The dev for i2p has included an easy windows installer for i2p that should make this much better for most users. So some development has happened there.

    Also just recently qBittorrent included support for I2P in their latest release. Before that, only 2 Bittorrent clients existed. Now we’re up to 3.

    The biggest advantage is that you don’t need to spend money anymore for a VPN. Or any money for a seedbox either if you have a home computer you can just leave up to seed for you.

    The biggest disadvantage is the hard setup and (so far) lack of torrent availability. More stuff is getting added all the time but we need more scene groups adding their releases to i2p (cross-seeding).