There hasn't been a comment or status change to this bug in three years.<p>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.<p>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.<p>uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everwhere, Decentraleyes, Privacy Badger, au-revoir-utm et al should be native features at this point.
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.<p>[0]: <a href="https://github.com/mozilla/libdweb" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mozilla/libdweb</a>
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.
Does anyone know how well IPFS protects the privacy of individual users, given that any sort of P2P protocol is going to shift copyright liability for what they read or watch onto them?
on a similar note, here is the uservoice for dat protocol support in MS Edge.
<a href="https://microsoftedge.uservoice.com/forums/928828-developer/suggestions/40304497-native-support-for-dat-protocol" rel="nofollow">https://microsoftedge.uservoice.com/forums/928828-developer/...</a><p>if you folks are interested, maybe you can vote it up. it might get funded.
Is there any reason IPFS wizards could not implement IPFS or equivalents over WebRTC peer-to-peer, as in-page JavaScript application? Even if this were not the real thing, it would bring it closer to the mainstream more quickly.