A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet

• stealth

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  :rocket: Stealth - Secure, Peer-to-Peer, Private and Automateable Web Browser/Scraper/Proxy

  

Honestly, I thought about the very same problems a lot. And not only from a user's privacy perspective but also from a browser's perspective and from the perspective of a god's eye's view that big tech companies have.

Google's or Cloudflare's DNS alone probably has so much data that any ISP pales in comparison.

The web is broken and it gets more and more rotten over time. Google found out they don't need cookies to track people, so they invented FLoC and decided to actively don't give a damn about any privacy regulation on the planet - activating the tracking mechanism for everyone without any real influence or decision on the user's side.

I think the web3 idea will never exist once we try to reinvent the wheel. New protocols and new ports can easily be blocked. At some point they're just portrayed like TOR, as a tool for evil rather than good. DNS over TLS just gets its 853 port blocked by most ISPs so it's useless as a tool to shift the means of control here, and only DNS over HTTPs makes a real difference.

Given the nature how the web works, how it's transported and how dynamically it's being changed in its resources over time - I think it's more important to mention the idea of statistical truth in the moment, when I was using it.

I don't have the bandwidth to download gigabytes of blockchains for a single website. I don't know how hashes work, but I know how URLs work.

The strength of a peer to peer system is not ledging, it's offloading. Every cached download that's offloaded via a closeby peer's cache is another tracking prevented. Every request that looks and behaves like Chrome's rendering engine on Windows/MacOS is another user saved from network fingerprint identification.

Privacy is not keeping things to yourself. Real Privacy is looking like everybody else. And that is not only a user-agent string, but things you download, assets that are requested, hardware you use, and web fonts you have installed as well.

For my own Browser I've decided to push the boundaries a little by implementing those features with the primary goal of being able to make the web work when you're offline or just connected to trusted peers (that have the URLs already cached). [1]

You don't need custom protocols there. You don't need to roll your own crypto.

HTTP, WebSockets and TLS are already peer to peer.

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth (highly alpha)

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