> I've not tried Freenet for a few years, but every time I did it was very slow
It has become a lot faster recently, try again :) When I look at its statistics during active usage it can easily show 1 MiB/s traffic.
You still can't expect HTML to load in sub-second delays, for large multi-MiB sites it may take a low single-digit amount of seconds, but there is an inherent cost to anonymity which probably induces a boundary on how fast things can be:
To achieve anonymity, data needs to be redirected across multiple people so the sender and recipient can't determine who each other of them is.
Redirecting stuff across a longer path than necessary slows things down.
> To achieve anonymity, data needs to be redirected across multiple people so the sender and recipient can't determine who each other of them is.
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> Redirecting stuff across a longer path than necessary slows things down.
That's skipping past a lot of details. There are still choices there. Freenet traded speed, efficiency and scalsbility for a specific security model. There are anonoyminity systems (e.g. tor) that are much more efficient but have different trade-offs.
It has become a lot faster recently, try again :) When I look at its statistics during active usage it can easily show 1 MiB/s traffic.
You still can't expect HTML to load in sub-second delays, for large multi-MiB sites it may take a low single-digit amount of seconds, but there is an inherent cost to anonymity which probably induces a boundary on how fast things can be:
To achieve anonymity, data needs to be redirected across multiple people so the sender and recipient can't determine who each other of them is.
Redirecting stuff across a longer path than necessary slows things down.