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CENO: a p2p web browser that uses torrents to circumvent censorship -- does not work

4mon 6d ago by libretechni.ca/u/nonserf in broken_software@lemmings.world

cross-posted from: https://libretechni.ca/post/865880

Conceptually this seems like it could be a quite useful app for getting web pages. I learned about it from morphite88 thelemmy.club in this thread. It’s implemented on Android and Windows (not linux? wtf).

I installed the AOS version, which is ~100mb compressed and over 500mb unpacked. Wow.. wtf that is huge. It’s based on Firefox so I wonder if that’s where all the fat comes from.

In any case, the app simply does not work. When I launch the massive thing, it tries to contact a “bootstrap server”, and fails. I do not trust the clearnet and thus force CENO over Orbot (Tor). Perhaps that’s the issue.

CENO gives an option to enter a custom bootstrap server, but my searches come up empty. Perhaps this app it too unpopular to have alternative public servers.