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Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by christiansakai »

I feel like the golden age of front end is just coming to ripe. Ethereum smart contract toolchain is written in JavaScript, browser wallet like Metamask is the defacto way to interact with user's wallet without having to send any sensitive information (private key) to the server, and now with IPFS as well!

Dare I dream that an entire frontend assets (compiled html, js, css) is hosted on IPFS, making a truly decentralized apps?

Seems like an exciting era to be a JavaScript/frontend devs.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by dbeley »

killingtime74 wrote: post #127
Legion wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the person's point is that Mozilla is making a complete browser, rendering engine and all, while Brave is basically a shell of stuff on top of Chromium/Blink.

I don’t think the customer cares as long as you can use it

Customers caring about IPFS support are also the ones caring about browser engine monoculture.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by amelius »

arduinomancer wrote: post #135
Nican wrote: post #115

It is not the first time that I have looked at IPFS and I still have a hard time understanding how the ecosystem is going to work. From my understanding, the file hash is basically the file URL, such that any change to the file content is a change to the file url as well. For hosting something like Wikipedia, how would one create pages that link to one another? And if indexes need to be created on top of the content,…

Another commenter mentioned IPNS but another thing that seems to help with this is that the content hash can be a folder containing static files. You can then link to files within the folder using relative links. I guess this avoids having to have IPNS entries for every file?

But how do you let two files link to each other? So A links to B, and B links to A.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by BrendanEich »

paride5745 wrote: post #137

I tried to switch fully to Brave, but I had issues with Sync, messing up my 400+ bookmarks (thanks regular backups for the recovery), plus I really dislike uphold, as I had terrible experiences with them. Any plan to at least allow using other crypto platforms like coinbase?

Sorry for the sync problem -- should be fixed now, if you are willing to try it again.

We talk to many custodians and would love to partner with Coinbase. We've added Gemini (creator wallets now, user next) and are adding bitFlyer. So options beyond Uphold to comply with regional regulations, as well as to give users choice, are coming.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by monokh »

This is so great to see. One of the big issues with IPFS was that ultimately the end users were mostly using public http gateways and not contributing by "pinning" the content. That is not distributed and therefore as centralized as what we had. There was no easy mechanism for end users to pin the content.

I hope that local nodes and pinning become default from here on.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by BrendanEich »

webmaven wrote: post #155
BrendanEich wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Peter Thiel is not personally an investor in Brave. The firm he's a partner in (Founders Fund) has a small seed series investment, which was led by Cyan Banister. Some first floor engineers at Brave have more equity than that small investment constitutes. Repeating falsehoods once you know they are false is lying, so please don't.

> Some first floor engineers at Brave have more equity than that small investment constitutes. Is "first floor engineers" an SV-ism (or Brave-ism) that indicates something like "early employees"?

It's wider than SV, startup folks anywhere know it. Yes, early employees.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by webmaven »

erichocean wrote: post #58
jjd33 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Peter Thiel (Palantir) is one of their main investors. that should raise all alarm bellas for a product that advertises itself with "privacy"

Palantir exists to improve privacy of citizen data within the government. Without it, government workers have massive, untraceable and unaccountable access to private data. (See Snowden for more info.) I don't like that there's even a need for Palantir, but given the need, I'm glad it exists and I'm glad someone like Thiel is behind it.

> Palantir exists to improve privacy of citizen data within the government.

Huh. So the argument to overcome objections to a

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by skissane »

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

It works but it could be a bit better:

1) First it loads it through a proxy, then shows me button to enable a local node

2) When I click that button, I then get a page with "Connection Refused" talking to localhost

3) After a few more seconds, the page reloads I get the actual IPFS page

I am guessing with (2) the local node is being a bit slow to start. (I am using a 2013 MBP.) Ideally it would display some kind of "please wait node starting..." message at (2) rather than a connection refused error

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by feross »

justsee wrote: post #64
joshuakelly wrote: post #29

Massive. I have a project that assumed ipfs:// would eventually exist natively within a mainstream(-ish) browser, and I'm very pleased to discover that after updating to 1.19.x it all just works. Excited for the forthcoming DNSLink support too, even if it's just a bridge to something even better. Best of luck to everyone who wants the web to stay bundled inside of the corporate state.

It really is great to see challenger browsers pushing the web forward like this. Along with IPFS it's nice to see Tor integration, low-level content blocking, a privacy-respecting Zoom alternative ( https://together.brave.com/ ) and integrated MetaMask for Web3. Brave still has a small userbase (~24 million), but hopefully it creates the space / incentives for Firefox and others to play catch-up so we see a lot of th…

Also, they integrate my WebTorrent project (https://webtorrent.io) so that .torrent files and magnet: links just work out-of-the-box.

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035025231-Wha...

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