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Brave web browser adds native support for peer-to-peer IPFS protocol
The decentralized tech community is aiming to find support for technologies that go beyond cryptocurrency support.
In a blog post today the team at Brave announced that they have worked with Protocol Labs to integrate native support for the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) inside their browser. The peer-to-peer file-sharing standard launched in 2015 and has been gathering support among open-source advocates who laud the protocol’s ability to stop companies and government bodies from taking down content across the web, as well as the more functional performance improvements, offline file-viewing capabilities and underlying reliability.
How to Use the Uncensorable Web on Privacy Browser Brave
Privacy-centric Brave has integrated the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) into its updated browser.
In brief
The InterPlanetary File System is a distributed protocol for sharing files.
Now, IPFS is integrated into Brave.
Since launching in 2018, Brave has built a loyal following by giving Web users what they want: more privacy and fewer ads.
Now, it’s letting users give back by making the internet more censorship-resistant.
The privacy-centric Brave browser has tucked a nifty new integration into today’s software update that lets Brave users view content via the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS).
IPFS Support in Brave Brian Bondy, CTO and co-founder of Brave
Over the past several months, the Brave team has been working with Protocol Labs on adding InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) support in Brave. This is the first deep integration of its kind and we’re very proud to outline how it works in this post.
IPFS is an exciting technology that can help content creators distribute content without high bandwidth costs, while taking advantage of data deduplication and data replication. There are performance advantages for loading content over IPFS by leveraging its geographically distributed swarm network. IPFS is important for blockchain and for self described data integrity. Previously viewed content can even be accessed offline with IPFS! The IPFS network gives access to content even if it has been censored by corporations and nation-states, such as for example, parts of Wikipedia.
Peer-to-peer protocol promises availability and resilience, but awaits proof of speed and resource thrift Share
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Brave Software on Tuesday plans to release an update of its Brave browser that implements support for the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol for storing and sharing data over a distributed network.
IPFS support, which arrives in v1.19, allows Brave users to access IPFS resources using an
ipfs:// URI, either through its embedded gateway service or by installing a full IPFS node, which enables the hosting of IPFS-accessible content.
Brave claims to be the first widely used browser to implement native IPFS support; Opera for Android did so in March, 2020, though it relies on a gateway – a cloud service, like Cloudflare s IPFS Gateway, that handles IPFS in the absence of built-in browser support.