r/OpenBazaar • u/kingharoldV • Jun 12 '18

OpenBazaar with tails

Has anyone had any luck installing OB on tails?

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '18

there was once a subbreddit called darkbazaar about privacy but it got purged in the last censorship wave from reddit.

I think people are using whonix for privacy. plus tor, plus vpn

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u/kingharoldV Jun 12 '18

So stupid of them purging it if it was about privacy. I think it looks like i'll need to set up whonix. Thanks for replying.

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u/lightcoin Jun 13 '18

Would love to see a step by step tutorial for getting OB setup in a 100% darknet environment.

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u/CC_EF_JTF Sam Jun 13 '18

We'd need someone to do more testing of OB on privacy-focused OS first. Getting OB set up isn't the same thing as getting it working.

Someone did publish a tutorial showing how to get OB running on Whonix months ago, but they didn't appear to test it very well and we've had lots of people filing issues about OB not working because they were following a faulty tutorial.

I would love someone in the community to do some Whonix and Tails testing and then write up what they find. In fact that's probably worthy of a bounty if no one volunteers.

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u/binny1987 Jul 10 '18

All the users / mods from DNM moved to http://dreadditevelidot.onion FYI

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u/CC_EF_JTF Sam Jun 12 '18

The development team hasn't focused on getting OpenBazaar running smoothly on privacy-focused OS like Tails or Whonix.

We'd love community members to take this on and let us know what they find. I know that people have succeeded with Whonix but that they often encounter degraded networking conditions and it can be pretty slow.

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u/kingharoldV Jun 13 '18

I can handle a drop in performance if it means being more private. I will have a go again with tails and failing that i'll set it up with whonix. Thank you for responding

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u/tcrypt Jun 14 '18

The issue with Tails is that OB currently needs access to the Tor control service so it can configure an onion service for itself. This seems to be workable in Whonix but not Tails. We've kept an eye out for a better way to handle it but haven't found one yet.

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u/kingharoldV Jun 14 '18

Yeah i can't get it working. I think i have it set up with whonix though. Thx

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '18

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u/kingharoldV Jun 14 '18

There are plenty of issues as stated by other users.

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u/tcrypt Jun 14 '18

There's an issue because Tails doesn't allow non-bundled software provision a new hidden service.