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Re:Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla by kmeisthax on Thursday January 21, 2021 @04:51PM (#25864875)
Does anyone know how well IPFS protects the privacy of individual users, given that any sort of P2P protocol is going to shift copyright liability for what they read or watch onto them?
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Re:Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla by beardog on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:30PM (#25865397)
It basically doesn't, I found a few years ago that it also makes your browser more fingerprintable (though in recent time browsers are getting more resistant to this)

https://chaoswebs.net/blog/tracking-ipfs-users-via-cache-pro...

So even if you use a VPN with it, if you are logged into a website that knows you, it could scan what you have saved from ipfs (among known IDs anyways)

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