IPFS is 6 years old and major browsers still refusing to support it.
Imagine if the WWW was six years old (1997) and all the major browsers were like
> nah, just gonna continue supporting FTP and gopher, not this newfangled WWW thing
> but hey, we did, in collaboration with AOL, implement special support for their dialup site in our browser
@joeyh Browsers could have supported various p2p address systems over the last 15 years. But they didn't. My guess is that there isn't a lot of advertising revenue to be had on i2p or IPFS.
it's not their access to the data
it's their access to the metadata from our access to the data
@cwebber @bob @joeyh afaik Mozilla development is all (or nearly all) ultimately funded by Google. Would Google be able to do the same indexing and targeted ads on IPFS, particularly where they don't have much of a handle on DNS lookups? It doesn't seem very likely. So I wouldn't expect Mozilla to adopt anything which potentially degrades Google's revenue.
The only browser that does support IPFS is basically Chromium + ads as a means to milk people's attention for magic beans (cryptocurrency) so it doesn't count. Software being a means to an end that doesn't involve serving users is a red flag.
@bob @joeyh (Okay yes IPFS does not deliver privacy, stuff needs to be layered on top. But still, within the same line of arguments.)