[dudehere]

True, but I gave a solution for such countries and other cases along the lines: use VPN. It fully recovers security. You only need to quit your local network to bypass MITM risk. VPN does a lot more for your security and privacy.

It is not less secure since there's no equivalent more secure option. Don't mix problems of your network access with global decentralization. Decentralization alone is a way for better security by obscurity, but you should appreciate that whoever makes the project are volunteers having scarce resource and who don't want to make it a job for making it perfect for infinitesimal concerns.

I have no idea what "original" you refer to in this context. If the Web is more secure with broken HTTPS here and there and fully centralized access, you probably didn't fully understand what the dWeb project is doing.

[cmeacham98]

Using a VPN only sidesteps the MITM risk to my VPN provider, their ISP, and everyone after that on the line. That's probably better than my normal internet if it is known comprised, but isn't really a much better solution.

And yes, the equivalent more secure option is running a website on the boring old normal internet. This solution actually gives more power to centralized operators, allowing your ISP and government to take over the connection whenever they want, a problem that doesn't exist for normal websites.

If your more secure alternative must be decentralized, then Tor hidden services are the go-to option, running on a decentralized network with actual working and battle tested security.

You can claim the problem is "infinitesimal" all you want, but until you point out a problem this solution solves that has more users being actively attacked than every person in China, I'll just assume you must be trolling.