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Re:IPFS Support in Brave by musicale on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @09:01PM (#25841693)
> Mozilla promised us Tor integration, IPFS integration and more private browsing by default. Brave delivered it all.

Interesting. When Mozilla promise this, and what sort of time frame were they talking about?

Presumably "more private browsing" has been delivered somewhat already in Firefox?

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Re:IPFS Support in Brave by agilob on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @09:59AM (#25847146)
It was all after Snowdens leaks. Mozilla promised to de-fork Tor browser, move Tor into private browsing. They kept repeating this for years and years.

They even started a bunch of Tor nodes to collect some metrics. It looks like they are removing their blog posts about it

https://blog.mozilla.org/it/2015/01/28/deploying-tor-relays/

https://web.archive.org/web/20150722100146/https://blog.mozi...

> Our primary goal is to un-fork the Tor Browser

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173199#c31

They were very vocal about how web is broken, needs more Tor and IPFS for everything to allow more free speech for disadvantage. Today they promote unregulated censorship, banning and shadow-banning public channels. You will find many posts about it between 2014 and 2018.

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