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Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla

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Post by fossislife » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 1:01 PM UTC

Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla
bugzilla.mozilla.org

Re: Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla

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Post by dleslie » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 6:35 PM UTC

There hasn't been a comment or status change to this bug in three years.

I've been giving Brave a shot due to their recent addition of first-class support for IPFS, and the numerous positive HN comments. It's... So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the slowness.

One common response regarding performance woes on Firefox is that common addons, particularly uBlock, process a large amount of data through complex rules during page load. What I haven't heard is any plans on the part of Mozilla to support that level of ad-blocking and privacy protection at the product level, rather than the extension level, which may provide much needed performance enhancements.

uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everwhere, Decentraleyes, Privacy Badger, au-revoir-utm et al should be native features at this point.

Re: Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla

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Post by isaacimagine » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 6:38 PM UTC

There are lots of very interesting and useful protocols, from ipfs to gopher, hyper to i2p, from freenet to zeronet, etc. - I think it would be cool if browsers added an extensible framework for adding new protocols.

Re: Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla

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Post by madushan1000 » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 6:43 PM UTC

Mozilla gave up on distributed web a long time ago, Just look at the libdweb[0] project. No update in years, nobody even to get almost complete patchset to firefox reviewed and merged.

[0]: https://github.com/mozilla/libdweb

Re: Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla

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Post by pixxel » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 6:44 PM UTC

dleslie wrote: post #2

There hasn't been a comment or status change to this bug in three years. I've been giving Brave a shot due to their recent addition of first-class support for IPFS, and the numerous positive HN comments. It's... So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the slowness. One common response regarding performance woes on…

For those of us that haven’t heard of au-revoir-utm:

> How annoying are those "utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss" in URLs ? Right!

> So this extension removes them and prevents you from being tracked.

> Source code at https://github.com/Rik/au-revoir-utm

Re: Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla

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Post by KozmoNau7 » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 6:50 PM UTC

pixxel wrote: post #5

dleslie wrote: post #2

There hasn't been a comment or status change to this bug in three years. I've been giving Brave a shot due to their recent addition of first-class support for IPFS, and the numerous positive HN comments. It's... So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the slowness. One common response regarding performance woes on…

For those of us that haven’t heard of au-revoir-utm: > How annoying are those "utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss" in URLs ? Right! > So this extension removes them and prevents you from being tracked. > Source code at https://github.com/Rik/au-revoir-utm

I prefer CleaURLs, it also removes UTM parameters plus a number of other tracking parameters: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/

Re: Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla

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Post by Funes- » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 6:50 PM UTC

dleslie wrote: post #2

There hasn't been a comment or status change to this bug in three years. I've been giving Brave a shot due to their recent addition of first-class support for IPFS, and the numerous positive HN comments. It's... So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the slowness. One common response regarding performance woes on…

>It's... So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the slowness.

You can block ads just by editing your hosts file. There's no need to depend on any browser's particular functionality in order to get rid of them. Nor on extra hardware (Pi-hole), for that matter. I have a cron job download a prefilled copy from a popular github repository [1] daily.

[1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

Re: Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla

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Post by dleslie » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 6:53 PM UTC

Funes- wrote: post #7

dleslie wrote: post #2

There hasn't been a comment or status change to this bug in three years. I've been giving Brave a shot due to their recent addition of first-class support for IPFS, and the numerous positive HN comments. It's... So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the slowness. One common response regarding performance woes on…

>It's... So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the slowness. You can block ads just by editing your hosts file. There's no need to depend on any browser's particular functionality in order to get rid of them. Nor on extra hardware (Pi-hole), for that matter. I have a cron job download a prefilled copy from a pop…

That doesn't scrub all advertisements without also going full-nuclear on certain social media sites and video services.

Re: Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla

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Post by dleslie » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 6:53 PM UTC

KozmoNau7 wrote: post #6

pixxel wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those of us that haven’t heard of au-revoir-utm: > How annoying are those "utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss" in URLs ? Right! > So this extension removes them and prevents you from being tracked. > Source code at https://github.com/Rik/au-revoir-utm

I prefer CleaURLs, it also removes UTM parameters plus a number of other tracking parameters: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/

That's a good one, thank-you.

Re: Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla

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Post by pea » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 7:08 PM UTC

dleslie wrote: post #2

There hasn't been a comment or status change to this bug in three years. I've been giving Brave a shot due to their recent addition of first-class support for IPFS, and the numerous positive HN comments. It's... So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the slowness. One common response regarding performance woes on…

Out of interest, why not use uBlock on brave? That's my setup.