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Re: IPFS Support in Brave

#101

Post by aarpmcgee »

undefined1 wrote: post #99
agilob wrote: post #40

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

Mozilla seems to be moving in the other direction now. "We need more than deplatforming" https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...

My sense is that this blog post is objectionable to you but I can't quite figure out why.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

#102

Post by pbhjpbhj »

tarruda wrote: post #65
agilob wrote: post #40

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

It is easier for Brave to deliver new features when the biggest work is done by Chrome team.

I don't quite follow, are you saying Mozilla's structure is poor so making modifications is harder? Or perhaps that Chrome's developers did the work on IPFS and adding Tor and that you feel Brave rubber stamped them?

Mozilla has something like a $200M pa income (from Google alone). I wonder how that compares with Brave's income.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

#103

Post by dsissitka »

hobo_mark wrote: post #90
whycombagator wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

Only part of their source is available.

> Of the three layers, only the UI layer is closed-source. ... The Vivaldi UI is truly what makes the browser unique. As such, it is our most valuable asset in terms of code.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

#104

Post by traverseda »

jonathansampson wrote: post #94
traverseda wrote: post #83

Does IPFS actually work?

It does :) Download Brave and navigate to the following URL for a quick demo: ipfs://bafybeiemxf5abjwjbikoz4mc3a3dla6ual3jsgpdr4cjr3oz3evfyavhwq/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh.html

In my experience IPFS is only fast when you're using it through something like Cloudflare's IPFS proxy (which is basically a caching proxy). I haven't found IPFS to be actually usable any time I've tried running a node myself. Especially pinning anything beyond the most trivial of examples.

Hoping to be proven wrong though.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

#105

Post by nvr219 »

undefined1 wrote: post #99
agilob wrote: post #40

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

Mozilla seems to be moving in the other direction now. "We need more than deplatforming" https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...

What's that supposed to mean or have to do with this topic at all

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

#107

Post by max_ »

mikece wrote: post #63
agilob wrote: post #40

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

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...

The first time I actually leant how to use this I was like wow.

It was the only reason why I left chrome for firefox

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

#108

Post by desireco42 »

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.

Vivaldi is great, I really like it. Both it and Brave are excellent places to browse internet. Glad to have options and choice.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

#109

Post by gorgoiler »

I don’t know anything about IPFS and would like to know more.

When I visit an HTTPS URL I see content and some authenticity (of the server, at least) tied with the transport mechanism.

IPFS provides the content and a distributed transport. Does the protocol include authentication of the author? Is it up to the content author to include their own signature protocol outside of IPFS?

[If you post an ipfs:// link claiming it is a New York Times article, how do I know it’s real?]

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