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by scarlac 2174 days ago
Was Opera's "Turbo" mode not a similar feature? A feature launched in the early mobile/late dail-up days. Albeit the proxy CDN was provided by Opera. It would take proxy JPEGs, compress them more, serve them from an edge node. It don't think it was marketed as a privacy feature but mostly bandwidth/speed. But in theory if you trust Opera, you'd get more privacy?
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Opera Turbo was a bit different, I think, in that it used Opera servers as CDN and provided additional compression, while Decentraleyes uses your local file system as CDN without modifying the resources.
Given that Mozilla now has a proxy (VPN) service, that could be a nice tie-in indeed.
You don't want your VPN provider also unwrapping TLS.
So proxies intercepting your traffic are fine but VPN intercepting your traffic is not?

Of course, this should be super explicit and opt-in, but Mozilla is in a position where a lot of people would trust them (you can agree or disagree whether that trust is misplaced) and if the goal is privacy and/or saving bandwidth on poor connections, this could be very useful.