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Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by dennis-tra »

Chromium 86 safelisted some distributed web schemes for registerProtocolHandler() [0][1]. Among them are also `ipfs` and `ipns`. As my first contribution to go-ipfs I grabbed the corresponding issue and added support for the gateway code [2], which will be released with go-ipfs 0.8.0. This means anyone will be able to call e.g.

navigator.registerProtocolHandler('ipfs', 'https://dweb.link/ipfs/?uri=%s', 'ipfs resolver')

Afterwards opening something like:

ipfs://QmbWqxBEKC3P8tqsKc98xmWNzrzDtRLMiMPL8wBuTGsMnR

will be redirected to the public gateway configured above and handled accordingly.

You can also configure a different gateway as some have voiced their concern about routing everything through dweb.link.

[0] https://blog.chromium.org/2020/09/chrome-86-improved-focus-h... [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/r... [2] https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/7802

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by anderspitman »

feross wrote: post #170
justsee wrote: post #64

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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...

Man I recently "gave up" and switched from FF back to chrome for performance reasons. Might be time to try Brave

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by abdullahkhalids »

onelovetwo wrote: post #209
simmanian wrote: post #195

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I wrote this somewhere below as well but I'm honestly confused. It seems like I can load ipfs:// links just fine on my firefox. Is there something I'm missing? Edit: you guys are right. it seems i have installed the add-on some time ago and forgot about it.

when you type this in your address bar what do you see? ipfs://bafybeiemxf5abjwjbikoz4mc3a3dla6ual3jsgpdr4cjr3oz3evfyavhwq/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh.html

For me, without addon it just tries to search the url. With the IPFS Companion addon, it just works.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by anderspitman »

kickscondor wrote: post #196

Ok ok - check this out. ipns://k51qzi5uqu5dlusethckbaq0kf1udrhaq99lvrd21krkbnjukthfbv3hu4wkk8/ [Brave] (edit: got ipns://kickscondor.com/ working.) hyper://f8f860772e5e489beaf5c00390ab5b42703f8dd2a57d74e4d563433834208543/ [Beaker] http://kickscofbk2xcp5g.onion/ [Tor] https://kickscondor.com/ [Plain] Needs a Gemini version.

But does it support netcat?

    nc apitman.com 2052

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by AgentME »

sebmellen wrote: post #277
jonathansampson wrote: post #263

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When we launched Rewards (then called 'Payments'), we did so using Bitcoin. During that time, our users would seek to buy about $5 or $10 of BTC at a time. Due to network fees and congestion, these users would pay as much as 90% to fees, and still not be sure when their coins would arrive. This clearly wasn't good for the health and well-being of Brave and Brave "Payments" (now "Rewards"). Our hand was forced, effect…

Hey Jonathan, big fan of Brave, and I meant no disrespect with my comment. Serious question — how does BAT distribution work with ETH fees being in the same range now? Have you considered doing atomic swaps with a network like Stellar for a low fee transaction environment? They have a Metamask alternative called Albedo that you could probably effectively integrate into Brave. I've worked a lot with Stellar and would…

Not him, but there is progress in the Ethereum ecosystem on multiple fronts (in a way that's lacking in Bitcoin), so following that progress seems viable. There are working ERC-20-compatible layer 2 low-fee/instant transfer systems on Ethereum that Brave could use, and Ethereum does have plans being developed for sharding layer 1 transactions which will reduce fees for normal transactions.

(Disclaimer: I'm a bit biased toward Ethereum. I think it's more meaningfully decentralized and I own some eth.)

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by Acrobatic_Road »

VoxPelli wrote: post #157
adkadskhj wrote: post #60

Can anyone compare Brave to Beaker Browser? I've long been interested in Dat vs IPFS, so i'm curious how their browser counterparts behave. I suppose right off the bat, Brave is a "normal" browser - so it just supports +1 protocol. That's really cool.

Just a note that it's nowadays not `dat:` but `hyper:`, a rename of the protocol, that's used by Beaker: https://hypercore-protocol.org/

I know they renamed it, but something inside me want me to keep saying dat. It's familiar.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by Kbelicius »

_dh54 wrote: post #293
undefined1 wrote: post #99

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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...

The funny part is that this is the bio in Mozilla’s twitter: “We work to ensure the internet remains a public resource that is open and accessible to all.” I guess by “all” they mean only people with political opinions they support.

> I guess by “all” they mean only people with political opinions they support.

You are just misinterpreting what that quote says. They think that the internet should remain a public resource that is open and accessible to all. They don't think that everything on the internet should be a public resource that is open and accessible to all as you are implying.

Do you really think that everything on the internet should be a public resource and accessible to all, even your email, bank accounts, etc?

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by LilBytes »

Naracion wrote: post #296
Stephen304 wrote: post #216

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I've unfortunately had the opposite experience with FF send, I still use it all the time (or try to) when I find links on mobile that I want to read on a big screen, or when I have an image url on my laptop that I want to send from my phone via SMS, snapshat, etc. But the delay is just unbearably long and inconsistent. Sometimes (most often when sending desktop to phone) the delay is 15 minutes or more. I've found it…

I'm on Android. I use an app called Pushbullet, which mirrors notifications but also enables text and file sharing between all your devices. Sharing is instant. I also enable "open immediately on browser", meaning if I send a link from my phone to my computer browser then it'll automatically open a new tab with that link. It's pretty neat, it's really two or three taps away from any web browser tab on my mobile (open…

I used PushBullet once and send a pornhub link to all my devices which auto played. When I say Autoplayed I mean it started to play on my work machine and I was working from home.

Never rode my bicycle quicker (public transport sucked). Fortunately my computer was on mute but still had to confess to watching certain content on a work machine to my boss. Nothing came of it but all the same.

Be careful. I even posted on r/TIFU at the time.

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