Brave has become the 1st privacy-oriented browser to implement the IPFS, the peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to make the Web faster, safer, & more open.
IPFS is a peer-to-peer network & protocol designed to upgrade the Web to work peer to peer, addressing data by what it is instead of where it’s located on the network, or who is hosting it.
Brave announced in a press release that with its new desktop browser update (version 1.19), Brave’s 24 million monthly active users can access Content directly from IPFS by resolving ipfs:// URIs via a gateway or installing a full IPFS node in one click.
When installing a full node, this will allow Brave users to load Content over IPFS’ p2p network, hosted on their own node. “Integrating IPFS provides Brave users with a significantly enhanced browsing experience, increasing the availability of content, offloading server costs from the content publisher, and improving the overall resilience of the Internet,” said Brave.
Molly Mackinlay, Project Lead at IPFS said in a written statement, “Bringing the benefits of the Web to Brave users, IPFS’ efforts to remove systemic data censorship by corporations and nation-states are now strengthened through the integration with Brave.
“Today, Web users across the world are unable to access restricted content, including, for example, parts of Wikipedia in Thailand, over 100,000 blocked websites in Turkey, and critical access to COVID-19 information in China. Now anyone with an internet connection can access this critical information through IPFS on the Brave browser.”
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