New Update IPFS Companion - Make the Web Faster, Safer and More Open by Replacing HTTP

[Ink]

Homepage: IPFS is the Distributed Web
GitHub: ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion

IPFS aims to replace HTTP and build a better web for all of us.

This add-on enables everyone to access IPFS resources the way they were meant: from locally running IPFS node

IPFS is a new hypermedia distribution protocol, addressed by content and identities. IPFS enables the creation of completely distributed applications. It aims to make the web faster, safer, and more open.

Features:

• Detect requests for IPFS paths and redirect them to a custom gateway
• Detect hostnames with DNSLink and redirect them to IPNS at a custom gateway
• Monitor peering and gateway status
• Inject the IPFS API into every website's javascript context as window.ipfs
• Share files by uploading them to IPFS with optional preload at a public gateway
• Toggle between Active / Suspend state of all IPFS integrations
• Toggle between external HTTP API and experimental in-memory js-ipfs node (via Preferences)
• Pin, Open Web UI, Copy Shareable Links…
• …and much more!

 

[RejZoR]

Can someone explain to me this thing like I'm five? I just watched the "Demo" of it and I'm about the same wtf as I was before.

 

[brambedkar59]

Can someone explain to me this thing like I'm five? I just watched the "Demo" of it and I'm about the same wtf as I was before.

Try this...



Update: In above video it was all good until 5:00, after that it just became a mixture of Pasta and Fries with a topping of Onions (I liked how it looked but didn't know what it was Pasta? Fries? or something else)

The little bit I got from the video, IPFS seems pretty similar to Torrents (P2P). Similar to P2P networks the privacy issues might be pretty bad. Please correct me if I am wrong. At this point I am pretty much guessing from what little I know.

This one is much better for people like me.

 

[RejZoR]

The little bit I got from the video, IPFS seems pretty similar to Torrents (P2P). Similar to P2P networks the privacy issues might be pretty bad. Please correct me if I am wrong. At this point I am pretty much guessing from what little I know.

That was my guess too. It's like P2P but for web. Privacy concerns are indeed higher than for downloading some stuff through torrent...

 

[upnorth]

Filecoin, is a cryptocurrency and when I saw their involvement and one should pay ( again! I already pay my ISP. ) for file access it was dead easy to make a choice. Thanks but no thanks, and thanks @rockstarrocks for the video.