[austincheney]

I am probably wrong but my understanding is that IPFS is an addressing scheme. While it can be private or peer to peer it can also be public. As an addressing scheme it continues to follow the web’s client-server model. A client-server model on the web is inherently public and anonymous.

A dedicated peer to peer system focused on privacy has no server and no third party. Instead the model is client-client without third party routing. Privacy is then achieved because connections are direct, in an application layer sense, between nodes and each node is a client running the same application in the same way. This is always confidential and never anonymous. This is achieved because there is no application layer addressing used at all, not even DNS.

Think about it more in terms of a shared disk drive on a private network mapped to a local file system address instead of a web location.