[Suggestion] Make onion nodes default #91

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opened 2 years ago by houndvoyager · 5 comments

Pretty much title.

When first starting wowlet, the node used should be an onion node. If all of them shall fail, use a clearnet one!

-hound

Pretty much title. When first starting wowlet, the node used should be an onion node. If all of them shall fail, use a clearnet one! -hound
dsc commented 2 years ago
Owner

Hey, there are 3 ways to achieve what you want:

  • Run wowlet via torsocks or torify - wowlet will detect this and switch to onion nodes
  • Run wowlet via Tails
  • Run wowlet via Whonix

wowlet is meant as an easy-to-use program for beginners who want a reasonable level of on-chain privacy. It is not meant to be 'as anal' as e.g. Monero when it comes to privacy.

even for a 'beginner program' the protection provided by wowlet is pretty good, as it comes embedded with Tor - all third-party integrations (forum feed, market rates, suhwow, etc) are fetched over Tor.

So I'm not really motivated to support going fully over Tor by default. It will make things a lot slower, more annoying, and this is just not what I have envisioned for wowlet.

Use CLI. Use Tails. Use Whonix. use LD_PRELOAD via torify/torsocks. You have special requirements. wowlet is for the masses.

Hey, there are 3 ways to achieve what you want: - Run wowlet via `torsocks` or `torify` - wowlet will detect this and switch to onion nodes - Run wowlet via Tails - Run wowlet via Whonix wowlet is meant as an easy-to-use program for beginners who want a reasonable level of on-chain privacy. It is not meant to be 'as anal' as e.g. Monero when it comes to privacy. even for a 'beginner program' the protection provided by wowlet is pretty good, as it comes embedded with Tor - all third-party integrations (forum feed, market rates, suhwow, etc) are fetched over Tor. So I'm not really motivated to support going fully over Tor by default. It will make things a lot slower, more annoying, and this is just not what I have envisioned for wowlet. Use CLI. Use Tails. Use Whonix. use `LD_PRELOAD` via torify/torsocks. You have special requirements. wowlet is for the masses.
Poster

Hi!
Thanks for the input :)

I'm already running whonix so the suggestion wasn't targeted at me :)

How about adding some onion nodes to the default websocket list?
It'd enable users to choose them out of the box without actively adding custom ones.

-hound

Hi! Thanks for the input :) I'm already running whonix so the suggestion wasn't targeted at me :) How about adding some onion nodes to the default websocket list? It'd enable users to choose them out of the box without actively adding custom ones. -hound
dsc commented 2 years ago
Owner

unfortunately this is quite a big change (read: requires multiple days of programming) to change the 'architecture' of how the networking/node code work within wowlet. And like previously mentioned this is not something I support.

unfortunately this is quite a big change (read: requires multiple days of programming) to change the 'architecture' of how the networking/node code work within wowlet. And like previously mentioned this is not something I support.
Poster

Alright no problem :)

Alright no problem :)
dsc commented 2 years ago
Owner

aight :) sorry

aight :) sorry
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