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Opera set itself as the default web browser after install on W10. That's quite aggressive.
How is that possible? Win10 should require manual confirm for that
I don't like the term Web3 and I think a lot of people using the it are basically pushing snake oil. However, I really like the idea of eventually having client-side decrypted data, and censorship-resistant "torrent-like" distributed content. Whether cryptocurrencies must play a role in this or not remains to be seen.
I don't like the term Web3 and I think a lot of people using the it are basically pushing snake oil. However, I really like the idea of eventually having client-side decrypted data, and censorship-resistant "torrent-like" distributed content. Whether cryptocurrencies must play a role in this or not remains to be seen.
what IS web3?
"Web 3 is an umbrella term for a set of emerging technologies intersecting cryptocurrencies, blockchains and distributed systems" wat?
This is especially frustrating, considering that Sir Tim Berners-Lee himself has said, that “Web 3.0” should be about Semantic Web[1]. That does mean that it should get easier to build distributed and interlinked systems, but that seems to be a consequence, not the goal. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web#Web_3.0
That said, IPFS servers and clients are there but it's not in use. So it would be quite a stretch to call that "officially" Web 3.0 until it will be in use by a significant amount of end user applications. Until now also blockchain (read Bitcoin) payment is very exceptional despite tons of frameworks, libraries, servers and clients. Even for the semantic web there are bizillions of tools but the information value remains questionable.
Looking back at Web 2.0, the transition went much more smoothly from static Web 1.0 to usage of "DHTML", HTML 4.0 with much JS/Ajax and eventually popular services making a lot of use of it, namely Facebook and Google including their plugins that were embedded on lots of websites at that time and still are.
Anyways, would be nice if a new development would get traction...
I don't like the term Web3 and I think a lot of people using the it are basically pushing snake oil. However, I really like the idea of eventually having client-side decrypted data, and censorship-resistant "torrent-like" distributed content. Whether cryptocurrencies must play a role in this or not remains to be seen.
Having the ability for users to pay granularly for their use of web infrastructure is a key requirement if we want to transition away from a model where big corporations with dubious motives pay for web infrastructure.
Opera set itself as the default web browser after install on W10. That's quite aggressive.
How is that possible? Win10 should require manual confirm for that
In addition to ad blocking, VPN is becoming a very important feature for modern web browsers. With so many countries blocking websites and websites geoblocking users it becomes necessary to help users circumvent that to access a wide web. This is kind of the whole point of web browsers, give access to world wide web, not local web. Interestingly, Opera trying to compete with other browsers makes it pursue users inter…
This had me thinking. Since Cloudflare wants to provide free VPN. May be they should collaborate with Firefox and Offer a Browser with Cloudflare VPN / DNS by default?
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Because the current web is such perfection?
Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain technology has no use whatsoever. It's all made up with fictionary scenarios where any already existing and well-established technology would do just as good or even better. Don't put that snake oil in my browser, please. Thanks.
GIT makes use of what is basically a blockchain. Calling it useless is an extremely bold claim that requires a strong evidence.
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I was not aware web 3.0 is a thing yet. Is there any "killer" web 3.0 app? From what I've seen most are small crypto currency apps or web 2.0 apps with a crypto payment/token component. Is IPFS considered Web 3.0 as well?
Yes, I would say ipfs is an important component of web3. Ethereum has it's own competitor to ipfs called swarm which provides the static content hosting to pair with decentralised database (Ethereum blockchain), and decentralised messaging (whisper), to provide a fully decentralised application platform.