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Brave Becomes First Browser To Add Native Support For The Ipfs Protocol | Zdnet:
With the release of Brave 1.19 today, Brave has become the first major browser maker to support IPFS, a peer-to-peer protocol meant for accessing decentralized or censored content.
[...] Released in 2015, IPFS stands for InterPlanetary File System. It is a classic peer-to-peer protocol similar to BitTorrent and designed to work as a decentralized storage system.
IPFS allows users to host content distributed across hundreds or thousands of systems, which can be public IPFS gateways or private IPFS nodes. Users who want to access any of this content must enter an URL in the form of ipfs://{content_hash_ID}.
Under normal circumstances, users would download this content from the nearest nodes or gateways rather than a central server. However, this only works if users have installed an IPFS desktop app or a browser extension.
Brave says that with version 1.19, users will be able to access URLs that start with ipfs://, directly from the browser, with no extension needed, and that Brave will natively support ipfs:// links going forward.
Since some major websites like Wikipedia have IPFS versions, users in oppressive countries can now use Brave's new IPFS support to go around national firewalls and access content that might be blocked inside their country for political reasons and is available via IPFS.
In addition, Brave also says that its users can also install their own IPFS node with one click with version 1.19 and help contribute to hosting some of the content they download to view.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 20 2021, @03:11PM (7 children)
Parler 2.0 on IPFS?
If the Parler devs haven't started on it, I'm sure similar site's devs are working on an implementation. Just a matter of time. Then we'll see how distributed IPFS really is.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Spamalope on Wednesday January 20 2021, @04:05PM (3 children)
When ISPs block incoming ports?
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday January 20 2021, @05:14PM (2 children)
Exactly.. If it can't blend with the rest of the noise, it's no good.
All the ISP has to do is pass only whitelisted protocols, and with deep packet inspection, they can trivially block and redirect unauthorized encryption. The internet remains at the mercy of the ISP
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 20 2021, @11:57PM (1 child)
The ISP does not GAF about what you send/recv. They just want to know if they can single, double, tripple charge you for it. The other side though seems to care *deeply* what you are doing. So much so they built entire networks and datacenters to do exactly that.
Also the default port for IPFS is 8080 and using TLS. So it should look very similar to existing traffic.
(Score: 1) by Mike on Thursday January 21 2021, @06:01AM
The other side of what?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 20 2021, @04:18PM (2 children)
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump-parler-russia/parler-partially-reappears-with-support-from-russian-technology-firm-idINL1N2JT1S7 [reuters.com]
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 20 2021, @05:38PM (1 child)
I note that the Reuters demonizes all involved, including ddos-guard. Imagine that - the press demonizing free speech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 21 2021, @02:23PM
It's because "the press", and by this I mean the oligarchy of massive companies we now call "the press", doesn't think it needs "free speech" protections. Only little guys need that. "The press" has the full backing of govt (Deep State, ruling class) and globalist billionaires and universities that are funded by globalist billionaires, the Federal Govt (Guaranteed Student Loans), and the Communist nation of China (Chinese govt programs/grants and Chinese student tuition.
The only press that needs protection are those who do not get their funding from and therefore align with the above.