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Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by caycep »

agilob wrote: post #40

Mozilla promised us Tor integration, IPFS integration and more private browsing by default. Brave delivered it all.

I kind of wonder how many Mozilla developers/engineers jumped ship to Brave over the years?

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by whycombagator »

Splatter wrote: post #23

I have been a diehard user of the Vivaldi browser for a while now. I just posted the referenced article to their forum stating that Vivaldi should follow suit. Without such support I'll likely change to Brave specifically due to IPFS support. The internet is in desperate need of decentralization.

I want to like Vivaldi but isn’t it closed source? That’s a non-starter for me (given most other alternatives are open source)

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by 0-_-0 »

jonathansampson wrote: post #66
mikece wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does Brave have an implementation of Multi-Account Containers? This is the ONE killer feature in Firefox that makes it impossible for me to leave for Brave completely: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Not a 1-to-1 parity at this time, but Brave offers parallel profiles. You can have one running personal interests, while the other has professional interests. Each profile is able to host a unique session for Facebook, etc. Brave already prohibits cookie and data bleed-over from one domain to another.

> Brave already prohibits cookie and data bleed-over from one domain to another.

Is that similar to First Party Isolation in Firefox?

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by fabianhjr »

Splatter wrote: post #23

I have been a diehard user of the Vivaldi browser for a while now. I just posted the referenced article to their forum stating that Vivaldi should follow suit. Without such support I'll likely change to Brave specifically due to IPFS support. The internet is in desperate need of decentralization.

Most browsers have great support via the IPFS Companion ( https://docs.ipfs.io/install/ipfs-companion/ ) and that is better since it is easy to have an IPFS node running locally since it is quite efficient.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by [deleted] »

arsome wrote: post #25
jejkfmgmgk wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably the one by the Mozilla CEO, "We need more than deplatforming"[1] 1: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...

That headline is certainly inflammatory, but I don't think the actual content of the post is nearly as bad - they're not suggesting web browser start flagging/blocking sites or anything similar like it initially made me think. They're simply suggesting further transparency in algorithmic suggestions and research be conducted. You could even argue that they're suggesting that deplatforming simply isn't the ultimate so…

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Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by petre »

I used it until they introduced widgets in nov 2020 and screwed with my start page, then switched back to opera. Of course bat, rewards and the other junk was disabled from the onset. Dunno why bother and build your business model around such useless non features. The browser is pretty good otherwise. Ipfs is nice but not enough to switch back, not until the start page, frequents is unscrewed anyway. Others will probably follow suit and add ipfs as well. A torrent downloader and magnet links would be nice as well.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by simias »

vorpalhex wrote: post #4

I've been critical of Brave in the past, but I'm glad to see IPFS gaining more traction. IPFS getting browser based support is what's needed to connect in traditional consumers and let it take off.

I agree, I still want to support Firefox because I'm worried about all web browsers becoming shallow reskins of Chrome, but having built-in support for IPFS is pretty great.

That being said given the trajectory taken by Mozilla it seems like I'll have to give up on it sooner or later... What a waste.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by fwip »

alexrustic wrote: post #2

See also ZDNet article about this: Brave becomes first browser to add native support for the IPFS protocol https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-becomes-first-browser-to...

I've got a quibble with the headline - it might be the biggest browser to have native IPFS support, but some tiny browsers got there first.
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