Freenet

Freenet Features

Browse websites, post on forums, and publish files within Freenet with strong privacy protections.

• Secret Identity

  Create yours so nobody knows who you are

• Browse Websites

  Freenet is home to sites ranging from programming to sustainable living

• Forums

  Ask questions and exchange ideas

• Platform

  Build your own decentralized application on the Freenet platform

What's New

News about Freenet, internet freedom and privacy rights.

1. Freenet build 1489 released

   2020-12-21

   Freenet 0.7.5 build 1489 codename “solstice” is now available. Download Freenet This release adds an m3u-filter that enables safe access to m3u-playlists. Together with the existing support for media files (Audio using mp3, Ogg Vorbis, or Flac, and...

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2. Freenet build 1488 released

   2020-11-14

   Freenet 0.7.5 build 1488 is now available.This build improves translations to make Freenet more inviting for people around the world: update French, add Hungarian.For additional details see the release tag for 1488.You can download this release as...

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3. Freenet build 1487 released

   2020-10-10

   Freenet 0.7.5 build 1487 is now available.The focus of this build are plugin-updates, support for Freenet on Android, and a new signing process for the windows installer.Among the plugins, KeepAlive is finally an official plugin thanks to the work by...

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4. Freenet build 1486 released

   2020-08-06

   Freenet 0.7.5 build 1486 is now available.This is an emergency release which updates JNA to version 4.5.2 to prevent Windows nodes from breaking when Java is updated.Since we’re releasing from next, this release contains a number of further...

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Why we do this

I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet