I’m not familiar with Arweave. Are there other risks/downsides? Seems Tor is widely known/used, so I’m wondering what makes it “better”. Or if there’s any reading material you would recommend?

I have a problem with your "VPN" software. When I run the AppImage on Debian stable with all the prerequisite installed I get the following: Data extracted to /home/redacted/.local/share/simplified-privacy Directory /home/redacted/.config/simplified-privacy/profiles already exists. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/.mount_SimpliMl5mMy/usr/bin/Simplified_Privacy.py", line 4846, in <module> window = CustomWindow() ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/tmp/.mount_SimpliMl5mMy/usr/bin/Simplified_Privacy.py", line 345, in __init__ current_connection = ConfigurationController.get_connection() ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/tmp/.mount_SimpliMl5mMy/usr/lib/core/controllers/ConfigurationController.py", line 29, in get_connection raise UnknownConnectionTypeError('The preferred connection type could not be determined.') core.Errors.UnknownConnectionTypeError: The preferred connection type could not be determined.

Hey thanks for reaching out, so Arweave has been around 4+ years, but it used to be just 1 gateway. Now as of the last year, there is an entire decentralized CDN of 100+ gateways, making it much more appealing. Tor is better for outright illegal content, but Arweave is better for anything else. The downside to Arweave is the content stays up permanently We have reading on this here, and our podcast itself is on arweave,

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You're not the only one with that issue, we just released the new version with the fix. curl -O -J https://api.simplifiedprivacy.is/api/v1/platforms/linux-x86_64/appimage-versions/latest/Simplified_Privacy-x86_64.AppImage shasum -a 256 [filename] Should spit out this for version: 1.2.0: 6eace7c910fdb2d1b6240fe483866de4b21b368bdabe6a07921e18bcd9c6e612

arweave vs ipfs?

Thank you! That’s a really clear answer. I enjoyed reading a couple of the articles on your site (like the “why use our VPN in different voices” post - nicely done).

Oof, be ready to be blasted and shitcoin-shamed by the very kind toxic BTC maxis on Nostr...

Lol, what did I miss? Is Arweave a blockchain/crypto protocol? I went down the SimplifiedPrivacy VPN rabbit hole; I appreciated your insights — a healthy reminder to verify/don’t trust 🤝

thanks for your time man, hope to see you come through

thanks for writing in, so Arweave stores stuff directly on the blockchain, and has a CDN to distribute it. but IPFS stores it on nodes temporarily, and this is disconnected from delivery. It lacks a built-in CDN, and requests community people to run it. But there is nobody running it

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