/cy/ - Cyberpunk

Distributed wired has been there since early 00's, anon

>>1914
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>>564
Don't be rude.

>>1916
Elaborate.

Dont know what IPFS is, but I use Brave because it has got a nice adblocker

i use brave because i like orange and i like tigers so i use brave

I like the idea of IPFS. The real problem is getting people to use it. Doesn't matter if it solves all our problems if people don't use it. Like how Trump didn't get on gab when he was banned from twitter. Missed the opportunity to get millions of people out of a censorship regime and onto a freer platform. Now that mozilla and google are going to start censor stuff from the browser, as well as from search engines, I only hope that people will switch to free software instead of adapting to their total control.

>>1919
It is actually a lion, but yeah the icon looks nice.(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

>>1914
>I actually haven't downloaded Brave yet. Has anyone here tried it?
After seeing this thread, I decided to take this version of Brave for a test drive. To see a somewhat mainstream browser support IPFS is heartening. IPFS seemed to load faster then I remember from the last time I looked into it during early testing. It was like at whatever point Tor began to not seem so impractically slow to use regularly. Brave's IPFS interface worked well aside from the fact that cutting and pasting links was a slight hassle and didn't seem fully integrated yet. Nitpicking over a small user experience issue though.
Brave browser is an interesting concept, but it is too bloated for my tastes. Interesting in that there are things like Tor and IPFS all wrapped up in one software package, but that's also the reason I dislike it. Would rather implement both those things separately. I suppose Brave has it's place and I'll follow it's progress, but generally prefer "less is more" alternatives to Firefox and Chrome.
>>1920
>The real problem is getting people to use it.
Maybe a browser like Brave offering support will help with that?
>how Trump didn't get on gab when he was banned from twitter
Or spin up a Fediverse instance, communicate through that, and give his supporters a forum on something less centralized and more censorship proof. The hippy cliche of "tune in, turn on, and drop out" is good advice for anyone dealing with the headaches of current year centralized internet services and it's surprising that the boomers, who should be most familiar with that phrase from their youth, can't seem to apply that philosophy to the interwebs.

>>1914
inst brave spyware

>>1923
your arms are spyware because they send telemetry data to your brain

>>1921
banned lmao that's harsh

>>1925
5 day ban with reason BRAVE.
I only said that the icon looks nice.

>>1923
>isnt brave spyware
Brave does whitelists some advertisements, but discloses that fact. With the BAT token integration, it could be considered an advertising platform of sorts. If that's a concern, you'd have to lock down some settings like you would in Firefox with about:config. I'm not sure if it should be called spyware for that, but people talk shit. It tries to do many things and is most definitely bloated. Is what it is.

Maybe worth mentioning in this thread. Brave has started a search engine. Like it or not, at least it's an attempt at another competitor in a world where there is not much choice in that department.

https://brave.com/search/

I had tested brave a while back and found out that it makes some initial connections to some websites when it starts up with no way to disable that. Instant uninstall.

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[1] https://basicattentiontoken.org/reducing-digital-ad-fraud/
[2] https://community.brave.com/top?period=monthly