Freenet VS Tor

Compare Freenet vs Tor and see what are their differences.

Tor

Tor protects your privacy on the Internet by hiding the connection between your Internet address and the services you use. (This is *not* the official repository.) (by katmagic)
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Freenet Tor
74 121
987 15
0.9% -
9.7 0.0
23 days ago about 12 years ago
Java C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Freenet

Posts with mentions or reviews of Freenet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-07.

Tor

Posts with mentions or reviews of Tor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-07.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Freenet and Tor you can also consider the following projects:

ZeroNet - ZeroNet - Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network

proxychains - proxychains - a tool that forces any TCP connection made by any given application to follow through proxy like TOR or any other SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP(S) proxy. Supported auth-types: "user/pass" for SOCKS4/5, "basic" for HTTP.

GNUnet - GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed applications. Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack. Starting from an application for secure publication of files, it has grown to include all kinds of basic protocol components and applications towards the creation of a GNU internet. https://git.gnunet.org/

nitter - Alternative Twitter front-end

RetroShare - RetroShare is a Free and Open Source cross-platform, Friend-2-Friend and secure decentralised communication platform.

Invidious - Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

freenet-core - Declare your digital independence

duckduckgo-locales - Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>

blahdns - A small hobby ads block dns project with doh, dot, dnscrypt support.

libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit

Tutanota makes encryption easy - Tuta is an email service with a strong focus on security and privacy that lets you encrypt emails, contacts and calendar entries on all your devices.