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Well, one can use IPFS through Tor, and use gateways that are Tor onion services.

We do this for OpenBazaar which is built on top of ipfs and it works great. We built a Tor transport for libp2p, which is what drives ipfs's p2p networking so any libp2p app, including ipfs, can work over Tor.

https://github.com/OpenBazaar/go-onion-transport

Indeed. And that's where I first learned about IPFS via Tor.

It was y'all that actually got IPFS working via Tor.

Obfuscating your IP doesn't solve the problem. If a malicious actor knew someone's info (such as address), they could give them an ipfs link with CP and report them.

Sure. You also gotta hide your name, address and all other information that could identify you. Otherwise, there's no point in obfuscating your IP.

What is the legal standard for say YouTube about not carrying illicit content? Just follow that. Make a list of banned hashes or something of the sort.

there's something weirdly poetic of having information reborn through voluntary noise

Good point about the experimental Tor support and the Onion IPFS gateways.

Is there a reasonable way to use untrusted gateways while upholding the data integrity guarantees? I think it should be possible in theory.

Because data on ipfs is content addressed by hash you can always check the integrity of data you receive, in theory, although the tooling isn't there for you to easily verify the output of a gateway without your own ipfs node afaik.

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