BTW. Onion sites are not private. Law enforcement can access the onion sites in the same way as others. It just appears private. A cop in undercover can appear like an ordinary citizen and purchase dope from a dealer.
Only via a centralized relay, giving up the other nice properties.
> TOR is sensitive to DDoS attack, IPFS; it is not.
To DDoS a ToR website you'd need to overload the server(s) the website owner set up. To DDoS IPFS you'd need to overload the whole network. Harder, but not impossible. See [1].
> Ipfs is permanent web.
Sort of, but you have to address pinning.
> Law enforcement can access the onion sites in the same way as others ... A cop in undercover can appear like an ordinary citizen and purchase dope from a dealer
Yes. Solving this would require implementing an evil bit[2]. I don't think IPFS has solved that problem?
[1]: https://github.com/ipfs-inactive/faq/issues/171#issuecomment...
DDoS resistance is an issue on Tor but it has been shown that you can mitigate it. That’s one thing IPFS should win by default.
And for privacy, Tor is pretty much the best you can get. It’s not bullet proof but it is the safest tech in existence. For DHT based technologies you can literally query the DHT and get the ip address of every single person who has a copy of the files. This is way way less private than tor, it’s less private than a standard clearnet website.
You can access the website directly via its CID (ipfs://CID), or via its decentralized domain (domain.eth, domain.x). But of course, you will need a browser with native support for IPFS (Opera, Brave). Currently for other browsers you need an extension called ipfs companion.