A web browser extension for accessing I2P network anonymously

anonymous

browser extension

these two do not mix well. almost any extension can be detected by a site and used to fingerprint you.

https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/

You actually can use I2P with JS disabled as many eepsites work without it.
- Yes you're right, but disabling JS also makes you stand out way more wrt fingerprinting, and you can still be fingerprinted with HTML/CSS, TLS and other methods.
That is not true. On chrome, they could be fingerprinted using the way that extensions load remote assets (which I dont think is still possible). On Firefox, that has not been possible (maybe ever but at least for a while). The way that extensions are fingerprinted requires detecting the way they interact with the web pages DOM, which is not something many extensions do.
- check out how creepjs implements detection for many common extensions...
I don't see any extension info and I don't see how there could be any. There isn't any api for gaining this info in ff at the very least.

There are other issues, but most extensions can in fact not be detected by websites, unless they specifically add something that makes them detectable.
- perhaps you should look up how creepjs implements detection for known extensions

I2P is really cool tech, wish more people knew about it. In a similar vein: #hyphanet (formerly #freenet) and #nostr

and yggdrasil and lokinet
- Lokinet is sus with its model imo. Unlike i2p, the idea of which is lowering the bar for being a node, it raises the bar impossibly high for most of us. If you have the insane sum it requires to host a node, it would be more useful to the world if you spend it on hosting good Tor or i2p nodes imo.
Is there anything actually interesting on it, or is it all just drugs and CP like the onion darknet?
- Technologically, I2P handles large data transfers much more efficiently than TOR. That makes I2P useful for torrenting large files like Linux ISOs.

Misleading title. Using this with your day to day browser burns out any idea of anonymity.

If you want to be safe, make a bare bone Arch Linux VM and use this extension with GNU Icecat. Also change your DNS from your ISP to something like Quad9.

Does icecat use a custom user config that provides more privacy/security? I see on their page they package it with some preinstalled extensions (JShelter being of interest but only helping to increase the fingerprintability of your browser). All I know about it is that it is a GNU drop-in Firefox replacement (since it is a fork), but it most likely doesn't enable privacy.resistFingerprinting or many of the other things available in the Firefox config. You will not have anonymity on your proposed setup, nor even using something like the arkenfox user.js which provides much better privacy and security than the loose defaults of Firefox. I would instead recommend Librewolf, or even better Mullvad browser.
- I prefer opting for randomization over a deep quest for anonymity. I use various tools on different systems to randomize the aspects that are identifiable, and blocking what can analyze further, through firewall and network adblockers. I prefer to obfuscate rather than try to totally hide from everything.

What is i2p?

A P2P application for anonymous communication. There's chat rooms, forums, the whole range of things, all peer-to-peer, all decentralized, all built with privacy and anonymity as a feature.
A peer to peer internet
The deep web

I can't figure i2p out or nostr

If you want an easy onboarding solution for nostr check out https://damus.io/

The cool thing is if you don't like the first app you try, there's dozens of others, and your data moves across all of them seamlessly. I started on iris and now I'm on nostrudel and I'll probably try out a few more over the next year before I really settle in to the best one for me.

If you have questions, check out !nostr@lemmy.world or use the #asknostr tag once you have your account setup, people are very helpful there!
This cleared up some of the confusion about nostr to me: https://usenostr.org/