Looks very good to see VPNs and crypto integrated as first-class citizens into a webbrowser. Also love the nightmode.
SOCKS5 support has been in Firefox for aeons already. How is this VPN support any better?
Reborn 3: Desktop browser with Web 3, faster VPN and ad blocker
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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.
This is an interesting idea. Do you know of any good articles/books about it? I am interested in learning more.
A good chunk of the cryptocurrency space is built around this idea. Some more well known projects are Filecoin and Blockstack.
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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.
Cryptocurrencies have all kinds of uses, people actually use them. From countries with hyperinflation, to ridiculous civil forfeiture, to PayPal freezing large amounts for no reason. And it's my favorite method of payment, so easy. So don't speak for everyone.
So, you can go to the gas station, the grocery store and the barber and all pay them with Bitcoin? I doubt it.
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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.
I use crypto dapps almost everyday, but apparently that's a figment of my imagination.
What real world problem do they solve for you?
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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.
I use crypto dapps almost everyday, but apparently that's a figment of my imagination.
You can find people using anything if you look hard enough.
That doesn't mean those people are representative of something that's (a) useful, (b) an unstoppable trend as opposed to a fad, (c) can't be done better in other ways, (d) not harmful.
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#177So I've installed Opera 60. How do I try out anything special? Where is the Web3 and what's there?
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#178I personally feel that browsers are headed entirely in the wrong direction - "one thing well" no longer applies in this space. Does anyone have any recommendations for a lightweight browser, if such a thing even exists anymore? Perhaps Chromium + Scriptsafe + uBlock is what I need, but ultimately I want is a tabbed browser without a load of unnecessary features bundled in. For example; there is no way I would trust t…
> I don't trust the ad blocker in Brave for Android
I do wonder, why?
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How is that possible? Win10 should require manual confirm for that
Same here... Opera sets itself as default browser without any action/prompt whatever. It also adds the Opera icon in the task bar without asking anything. Red line crossed. Next step is probably to uninstall competitors ?
Not saying setting itself as the default browser is a good thing or anything, but Firefox also pins to taskbar automatically. Chrome does too IIRC.
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I use crypto dapps almost everyday, but apparently that's a figment of my imagination.
What real world problem do they solve for you?
I can hold all my assets in one place, which includes holding an ERC20 token that follows the S&P500. I'm essentially holding an ETF outside of a brokerage. I've also been loaning some DAI, ETH and other ERC20's through uniswap, and I hold a bit of BTC through WBTC which is a wrapped ERC20 token that follows Bitcoins price. I do all of this with one asset, ETH. I expect to eventually hold tokenized real estate as well.
There's also a flight insurance app that I've used once. If your flight is delayed, then the contract automatically pays out.
And when I'm bored, I have a bunch of FUN tokens that I picked up for free when it first launched, so I use those to play casino games once in a while. I also loan these tokens out on uniswap.
I'm also involved in MakerDAO governance since I hold some MKR as well as DAOstack which is an infrastructure layer for DAOs.
Last but not least, I use Brave browser and get BAT tokens for browsing. That's mostly everything right now, other than experimenting with other dapps.