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by undefined0 3877 days ago
Am I the only one who prefers the current internet over IPFS? IPFS exposes my IP to anyone who wants to know about the websites I'm visiting. As seen with BitTorrent, that power gets abused significantly. I would prefer a IPFS+Usenet solution, separating the nodes from the clients. What would be even better is if I could choose to connect exclusively to [any country here] nodes, and then I can feel comfortable knowing my traffic is remaining within borders that I can trust with privacy laws.
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I believe that the underlying transport mechanism is not part of IPFS; You can use IPFS over Tor to insure privacy.

Also, you can run nodes on other systems. This is effectively what `https://ipfs.io` is.