Focused on privacy, Brave integrates IPFS

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Our CTO and co-founder @brianbondy details the work our team has done for the first deep @IPFS integration of its kind. https://t.co/POs0R9SOnL

— Brave Software (@brave) January 19, 2021

Brave remains the browser I enjoy using, due to its privacy nature. The team have recently integrated IPFS (InterPlanetary File System), while that is a foreign language to me a bit of description gave me an idea of what I'm looking at.

The IPFS is a decentralized system for sharing files in which websites are hosted not by companies but by other IPFS users running nodes. According to Protocol Labs, the makers of IPFS, the peer-to-peer protocol saves bandwidth, improves internet connectivity, and makes it easier to keep content online.
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Basically we have files stored across nodes in decentralized manner as opposed to being hosted in centralized form.
According to the article the advantage of this is people can still access the web in countries where web access is blocked, we saw the internet shutdown in Uganda on the eve of election and the country was without internet for days.

It is unclear to me if IPFS can give overcome this but, steps like this are what we need towards having a decentralized world where no one has the power to cut you off your right.

Brave just added another development to its browser, I see more development on the way.

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