IPFS Support in Brave • Hacker News Board

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by dleslie » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 10:15 PM UTC

jonathansampson wrote: post #49

agilob wrote: post #40

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

And we will continue to deliver :) Thank you for the support!

I've been using Firefox since its inception, and was a Netscape user before that. I _briefly_ tried Chrome, but swiftly returned to Firefox.

Half my extensions are still broken on Firefox Android. I've been using Firefox desktop on my PinePhone off-and-on and not only do all of my extensions work, but it's snappy and has a superior UX. I can actually access and manage my bookmarks with a sane interface.

And yet even desktop is sullied. Each major version tries to hide my bookmarks, or something equally egregious, and Mozilla frequently abuses my trust by promoting products and services through privileged channels.

It's getting hard to justify using Firefox.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by jonathansampson » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 10:15 PM UTC

erichocean wrote: post #56

Does Brave support Puppeteer?

I believe the answer is yes. Should you run into any issues, please do let us know.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by traverseda » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 10:17 PM UTC

Does IPFS actually work?

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by drak0n1c » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 10:17 PM UTC

petre wrote: post #77

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 prob…

For those reading, the start page/new tab stuff can be trimmed and removed with a few clicks in Settings if desired.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by zrm » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 10:20 PM UTC

christophilus wrote: post #71

erichocean wrote: post #55

Maybe they shouldn't have let go the guy who made it happen…

I missed this. What is the backstory?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by barbacoa » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 10:20 PM UTC

echelon wrote: post #30

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...

And there goes my monthly Mozilla donation. I'm a liberal. But this is fucking fascism. When you want to take your position and jam it down everyone's throat and police how people can even talk. Fuck this. Decentralize everything. Edit : I just re-read the article after skimming and now I feel completely different. The article title is really bad. Mozilla is just calling for more transparency into how advertisers and…

"Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation."

One has to read closely to pick up on the doublespeak. They are calling for the use of algorithms to hide ideas they disagree with and artificially promote ideas they agree with. It is soft censorship but far more sinister.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by iampims » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 10:23 PM UTC

Is it possible to configure the http gateway?

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by pier25 » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 10:25 PM UTC

So essentially this is P2P between browser caches?

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by jonathansampson » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 10:29 PM UTC

0-_-0 wrote: post #74

jonathansampson wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I suspect so, but don't know the details of FPI in Firefox. We don't permit cookies and storage access by third-parties, while also blocking known bad-actors entirely. We also "farble" APIs to create noise for those who do have access. If there are any specific scenarios or questions you have in mind, I'd be happy to discuss further.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by hobo_mark » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 10:30 PM UTC

whycombagator wrote: post #73

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)

Uhm, no? https://vivaldi.com/source/