I'm just waiting for the flood of user-friendly pseudo(/techie)-mainstream I2P/Tor/Katzenpost apps. With how bad censorship and spying is becoming, and the constant enshittification of websites&apps, I feel like it's only a matter of time before people reboot the internet.
this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2025
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The internet needs a reboot. It was never designed for security, privacy or Black Friday deals. It was for sharing information.
Also, with so many tools and sites that are getting behind paywalls, it’s going to be something only the wealthy can afford.
It already is. It's typical for mobile plans to be a fixed amount of high speed data, and once that runs out you're throttled to 128kbps. At that speed, many websites are not usable, forcing you to either pay for more high speed data or practically not have internet at all.
128kbps is more than 2x as fast as a 56k dial up modem, and while it's obviously not fast, back in the dial up days, the internet was still at least functional.
https://endtimes.dev/why-your-website-should-be-under-14kb-in-size/ while this is mainly about latency, 14kb web pages would solve problems for low bandwidth connections, too
As someone who just started to need reading glasses I don’t understand mobile dominated use. That and I have more control over my PC. My monitor is so large it curves and I like it that way.
Fiber. Win. Glad I bought my latest components before RAM prices shot up.
It's basically impossible to participate in society without a phone. Many people cannot afford both a phone and a computer, so the more necessary device is prioritized.
Those aren't going to last long when the carriers start requiring traffic source attestation.
I've no idea what that last one is (my rusty German translates it to "cat mail"), but here's such an app for Android devices.
If you want to make a ton of money, commercialize one now and get in on the ground floor selling it to the masses.
Political persecution in the UK makes personal VPN use mandatory.
By the way, Tor just updated their encryption. Now it's using something called Counter Galois Onion.
This has not gone unnoticed in the halls of power. Murmurings have begun that something needs to be done, that the UK’s flagship child safety law has been made a mockery, and that VPNs are the problem.
Who could have predicted that this would be the outcome for a stupid, oppressive, corrupt, illiberal law?
One has to wonder to what lengths the free-speech-hating UK government will resort after they have outlawed VPN's and realized they can't shut down all VPN's without shutting down the Internet entirely.
I suspect they'll invent VPN licenses and sell them to corporations but not private individuals. And they'll pressure home ISPs to block suspected VPN traffic.
@floofloof @moretruth I think how they approach this will depend on how the US responds to OFCOM's attempts to fine US companies like 4chan.
If OFCOM is successful then it will probably force VPN Providers to implement Strong Age Verification and then fine those who don't do this and who don't inplement KYC.