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I'm not sure if it still works, but you if you are willing to install the I2P plugin on your PC, and the I2P app on android, it should connect. There's even an option in BiglyBT for Android's Remote Profile settings to only connect using I2P, but I don't think it shows up until the I2P app is installed.
Note that going through I2P is pretty slow and it takes a while for I2P to warm up on your device.
Edit: If you are using an access code to connect, there's an additional setting to change on your PC, under Options->Connection->Pairing->Optional Attributes->Enable registration of non-public network service addresses
>Fully encrypted P2P Onion router style network sharing, with decentralized file look up and storage for distribution?
You mean the I2P anonymity network?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.i2p.android&hl=en
Tribler is a torrent client with its own Tor like anonymity network built in:
We have tools, we just need more people working on these tools.
That's weird? Did you try the I2P mobile app? (It's for Android, but it works.) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.i2p.android&hl=en
And Orfox is a better Tor Browser than Orweb. Plus, to get Orfox to connect to Tor, you need Orbot (a proxy app). The Freenet links won't work unless you're connected to Freenet. (https://freenetproject.org/) - Some I2P Links will work if you put .xyz after them, like this: http://ugha.i2p.xyz/EepsiteIndex
In other words, you need to download the right software to connect to most of these. Am I making sense? You may be right, though, the mobile format is killing most of these, and the developers of the networks need to catch up!
> I stumbled across "IRC Collaborative Project - IRC2P" on the Play Store recently. The website given doesn't work (503 IIRC). Is it legitimate?
It is not created by us, but that is not uncommon. What is upsetting is that it appears to have not been updated since 2019, which means that there's a good chance that it's bundling old router libraries. This is bad for the network and bad for the app. It would be safer to use an app which does not bundle it's own I2P libraries and instead uses i2ptunnel or SAM to establish connection to IRC2P, so that the underlying router will receive normal updates. I use BRB now, but I wrote BRB so I'm biased. Revolution IRC is an unbiased recommendation.
> Also I see that https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.i2p.android is listed as not available in a particular country? Something to do with the USA's ban on cryptography exports (munitons) back in the day? Or some more mundane reason? Thanks
This was an undocumented decision made a long time ago by people who we're not really in touch with anymore, and it was brought up for re-consideration a long time ago by yet another person who we're not really in touch with anymore. We have an open ticket on i2p.android.base. Re: US Export restrictions we know pretty much for sure that doesn't apply to us because we're publicly-available open-source software. The only risks that could apply would apply to users in those countries, for instance if Google were to cooperate with widespread ban on anonymity networks then it's possible that GPlay users would be shared with authorities. Most countries don't actually "ban" anonymity networks, not even China and North Korea for instance, they just make them hard to use, and push certain activities, like routing traffic for other people, into legally gray areas. Since non-hidden I2P routers accept and forward participating traffic for other people, in those places hidden mode must be enabled to prevent participating traffic, but we don't want to enable hidden mode unless it's absolutely necessary to avoid unbalancing the network in terms of resources. On top of that, there's a lot of specificity to legal language that I don't even understand in English. So it's an incumbent decision that should probably be changed, but the discussion on it hasn't happened properly yet. The ticket is here: open ticket on i2p.android.base if you'd like to help jump-start that discussion.
I2P is like Tor and is meant for file sharing:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.i2p.android&hl=en
Tribler is a torrent client with its own Tor like anonymity network built in:
If Tor is blocked and nothing works, obfs4 bridges will bypass any block. But please try other bridges like meek before using obfs4 as it is not a life and death scenario.