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Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by jonathansampson »

wolverine876 wrote: post #152
jonathansampson wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have quite a few engineers whose roots lie within, or have passed through, Mozilla. We even have several engineers and team members who pioneered much of the Web at Netscape and prior :)

Are you sure you want to participate in a discussion badmouthing Mozilla? You're not directly saying those things, but you are taking part in the dialog. That sort of behavior makes me pretty angry about Brave. Focus on Brave. You have nothing to do with Mozilla.

I'm not bad-mouthing anybody; somebody wondered if we have engineers on staff who worked at Mozilla. We do. I'm proud of the history represented in our staff. They are the ones who pioneered much of this industry. And they are the ones who spun-up the browser wars again, rescuing the Web from IE. Mozilla will always be given credit for the wonderful work they have done, and continue to do, for the Web.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by jonathansampson »

shuringai wrote: post #229
agilob wrote: post #40

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

and in return, brave replaces your urls with their affilate links. no thanks i'll took the hassle to open tor browser on an ipfs client

You're referring to a bug from June of 2020, which was patched within a couple days of discovery, IIRC. An issue which had no privacy or security impact. Details in our blog on the subject: https://brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/. Happy to answer any questions you may have.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by jonathansampson »

Reedx wrote: post #257
sebmellen wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is already the case with Uniswap: https://uniswap.org/blog/ipfs-uniswap-interface/ . Let's see if the underlying economic models can mature to be viable in the "real world," or at least the digital real world. BAT, for example, made Brave possible, but the tokenomics are bad and basically no one uses it. That said, it is an exciting time, for sure! JavaScript sure has grown from humble beginnings.

Anyone know why they didn't just use an existing cryptocurrency?

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, effectively. We needed to pivot to a solution that offered better throughput, with lower fees, or possibly die an early death as a project. Hopping to an ERC-20 token offered immediate relief in both areas, ensuring Brave "Payments" would be able to go on and develop.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by j-james »

loceng wrote: post #246
JBiserkov wrote: post #43

See also the Beaker peer-to-peer web browser. I love how much simpler it is to host websites, from the browser - the real read/write web!! I'm not affiliated with them in any way. https://beakerbrowser.com/ https://docs.beakerbrowser.com/faq#what-does-beaker-do-bette...

Does it bother anyone else that Brave's claiming to be the first browser to support IPFS?

I don't see them claiming that anywhere in the article. "The first deep integration of its kind" probably refers to integrating go-ipfs into Brave, which is more complex than other changes they've made so far.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by fnord77 »

I don't understand. I tried putting the straight ipfs hashes in the address bar - /ipfs/blahblah - it didn't work.

the links that do work go through ipfs.io. Is this just a gateway like onion.ly for tor?

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by foobarbecue »

rmm wrote: post #154
mikece wrote: post #63

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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...

For me, somewhat embarrassingly, the one killer feature is the "Send to Device" feature from firefox on iOS. Being able to send links to browser for later reviewing is super useful. Not sure why Edge or other browsers don't implement

Chrome has had this for a few months. You're talking about right click browser bar and "send to my devices," right? Works for me from Chrome on linux and windows to android.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by mrone »

redmaverick wrote: post #235

There are no youtube ads that play on Brave. This is my number one reason why I use Brave.

Really? This issue could be easily solved by using uBlock origin, which is an extension supported on almost all major browsers such as Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Microsoft Edge.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by vxNsr »

wolverine876 wrote: post #152
jonathansampson wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have quite a few engineers whose roots lie within, or have passed through, Mozilla. We even have several engineers and team members who pioneered much of the Web at Netscape and prior :)

Are you sure you want to participate in a discussion badmouthing Mozilla? You're not directly saying those things, but you are taking part in the dialog. That sort of behavior makes me pretty angry about Brave. Focus on Brave. You have nothing to do with Mozilla.

I think you're misunderstanding what he's saying, I took it as a mark of pride that they have former Mozilla devs because Mozilla can honestly be called an internet pioneer responsible for much of the web we know today.
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