According to the news on 1.20, the strong privacy browser Brave released version 1.19, which marks Brave becoming the first important browser application to support IPFS. I believe this is just the beginning. In the future, more applications will be added to the Filecoin ecosystem. It shows that IPFS is a big step towards the future. V|jasonbody
The Brave browser was officially launched in 2016. In November 2020, it was officially announced that the number of users exceeded 20 million. The current monthly active users remain at around 24 million. Brave browser has always been known for its strong privacy protection, mainly through three main means to protect users' privacy. They are Brave Shields, Tor privacy model, and blockchain digital advertising.
Brave Shields
Brave Shields will block the “attempt to identify” behavior in websites and advertisements. It makes your visit faster and protects privacy. After testing, Brave can load major news websites faster than Chrome, Safari and Firefox is six times faster
Tor privacy mode
Although this mode is also available in other browsers, they can only ensure that you cannot see your history when you use this mode.
In Brave's privacy mode, it not only hides your history, but also transfers multiple servers to cover up the real location when you browse the website, making anonymity more reliable.
Blockchain digital advertising that respects privacy
Brave’s blockchain digital advertising truly achieved a win-win situation for all three parties. Let’s take a look at how it did it.
First, Brave launched a blockchain-based advertising platform. The project uses BAT (Basic Attention Token) cryptocurrency to connect users, platforms and advertisers.
In this model, users will be paid by the platform for watching advertisements. These advertisements will not infringe the user's privacy, and users can also reward their favorite websites or some favorite content creators.
In the past few months, Brave's team has been discussing with Protocol Labs to add support for InterPlanetary File Systems (IPFs) in the Brave browser. This is the first deep integration.
IPFS technology is a great innovation, it can help complete content distribution and data deduplication without consuming a lot of bandwidth, and the network loads faster in IPFS. IPFS is especially for blockchain and self-describing The integrity of the data is of utmost importance, and the content previously accessed by the user can even be accessed offline! The content carried by IPFS can still be accessed even when it is censored. The best example is Wikipedia.
In terms of privacy protection, IPFS also has advantages over traditional HTTP. When loading sites via IPFS, Brave uses CID as the source boundary. In addition, Brave only allows sub-resources to be loaded via IPFS when the main page is loaded from IPFS. . The page can set cookies for its own CID, but not for another CID. IPFS pages can contain other IPFS images, style sheets and iframes from any CID, and IPFS content can be obtained in the same CID.
On the other hand, if BRAVE is configured to use a public IPFS gateway, the privacy risk is different. For example, the gateway can see what you ask it to load via IPF requests. The gateway may also lie about what it serves you. In the future, Brave plans to use its CID to verify content retrieved through the gateway.
The organic combination of IPFS and other blockchains
IPFS technology is also essential for other networks that use blockchain technology and smart contract technology, such as Ethereum.
If you use smart contracts to process content, traditional URL access may become unsuitable because the content address may be changed, and smart contracts are immutable. And file storage in Ethereum is very expensive, but storing hash (CID) is feasible. The content of the data is on the IPFS network, and the hash is stored in the smart contract. This hash can be used to access content from any IPFS node.
This theory is also applicable to other DAPPs (decentralized applications). You can use Web3 to access Ethereum, and users can also get a complete decentralized experience.
future career
The above progress is only the beginning of the development of the IPFS ecosystem. Now the Protocol Lab is actively working to promote and improve IPFS, and there will be a lot of work in the following, such as:
- For mobile browser support, Android users are likely to be the first to use it.
- DNSLink It allows publishers to use DNS TXT records that point to IPFS paths.
- Fixed content context menu
- Website publishing
- More browser-level user UI interface
- TOR transmission