Brave becomes the first web browser to add the Native Peer-to-Peer IPFS protocol to its engine.
Although primarily focuses on privacy and security, the Brave Browser for desktop adds every now and then many innovative features. Most of the time, these features help customers overcome the limitations of today's internet.
However, this time, the developers have gone the extra mile for it protection του απορρήτου των χρηστών και επιτρέπουν την πρόσβαση σε αποκεντρωμένο και λογοκριμένο περιεχόμενο στο διαδίκτυο. Το Brave έχει γίνει το πρώτο bowser που ενσωματώνει το InterPlanetary File System. This new peer-to-peer transport protocol aims to reimagine how the internet should work and manage content.
What is IPFS?
The InterPlanetary File System (if we try to translate it we might say so Interplanetary File System), better known as IPFS, differs from HTTPS , which is currently considered the basic internet standard. Compared to HTTPS, IPFS is designed and optimized for decentralized data. IPFS uses multiple nodes to store content instead of relying on a single web server.
The process is similar to sharing files via the BitTorrent protocol, but IPFS enforces a better line of security and privacy. The new budding process provides the internet with advantages such as extra protection against DDoS-based attacks and an advanced caching system. In short, the IPFS protocol can change the way we see the internet in the future.
"Innovative IPFS content addressing" uses content identifiers (CIDs) to form an address based on the content itself as opposed to locating data based on a server's address. The integration of the open network code IPFS αποτελεί βασικό ορόσημο για να καταστεί ο Ιστός πιο transparent, αποκεντρωμένος και ανθεκτικός », said Brian Bondy , CTO and co-founder of Brave.
Η ομάδα Brave λέει ότι η application του IPFS θα επιτρέψει στους χρήστες να παρακάμψουν τους γεωγραφικούς περιορισμούς και πολλές μεθόδους λογοκρισίας. Η εγγενής υποστήριξη για το πρωτόκολλο σημαίνει ότι οι χρήστες δεν χρειάζονται κάποια επέκταση όταν θέλουν να έχουν πρόσβαση σε περιεχόμενο που είναι αποθηκευμένο μέσω του πρωτοκόλλου IPFS. Αντ ‘αυτού, μπορούν να πληκτρολογήσουν τις διευθύνσεις URL ξεκινώντας από το ifps:// και να εντοπίσουν τα εν λόγω αρχεία.
It should be noted that the IPFS system gives priority to the content, unlike HTTPS, which uses a data host as the unique identifier.
Protocol Labs is developing the IPFS protocol and aims to reverse the central status quo of the internet. This project is often discussed with blockchain and cryptocurrency, but they are not the same. Both technologies use peer-to-peer technology as a basis, but that's where the similarities end and the differences begin.
