We love the internet....but it's not the same anymore is it?
It has flaws.. the biggest of those flaws is that the information contained on the Internet is mostly centralized. This means that the information we access every day is governed & monitored by several large companies. The mission of the Interplanetary file system (IPFS) is to create a distributed internet that follows a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol.
Brave has now become the first browser to support native IPFS integration. It gives you the direct option to access pages on the internet through this protocol.
Benefits of IPFS -
privacy
performance
decentralization
data integrity
Browser version -
How to access IPFS content?
1 public gateway
2 local node (This you can directly turn on in Brave)
Option 1 -
Go to: brave://settings/?search=IPFS
or search IPFS in settings.
You will see the following IPFS options. Pick Gateway from the dropdown where you see Ask.
Option 2 -
You can turn on IPFS Companion (above screenshot) and the fallback as well from the same settings or
just simply paste the following IPFS link in brave
https://bafybeifk6th5qhox7pffjqjerbjxkpmsmufdcswdgacnmyv3fn53z2wgwe.ipfs.dweb.link/
you should see this pop up at the top. You can enable it this way.
and here's the page!
If you're new to IPFS then you should read this article as well
Complete beginners guide -
https://medium.com/virtuslab/the-complete-beginners-guide-to-ipfs-9713a6f59193
Possibilities of IPFS integration & the future -
https://github.com/ipfs/awesome-ipfs
The above link has some cool apps worth checking out!
https://globalupload.io/ is definitely worth checking out but be careful, the file that you post does not belong to you anymore, so keep that in mind.
I have also installed a Brave Browser and I completely no longer use my Chrome!