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Re:How we put IPFS in Brave (2021) by virgildotcodes on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @01:05AM (#31500806)
I mean, I could honestly see a ton of confusion along the lines of “isn’t this website already on the internet? what??”
Re:How we put IPFS in Brave (2021) by usrn on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @06:58AM (#31502740)
Also not knowing if disabling it will break the page, something even technically inclined people can't know ahead of time. It's not like push notifications where you would have to try hard to build pages that could break without the feature enabled. I could easily see people abusing this to serve pages over alternate protocols and making people expect to need to click "allow."
Re:How we put IPFS in Brave (2021) by dleslie on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @08:48AM (#31503768)
It's implied it will break or limit the page; just as denying access to microphone and video has that implication.
Re:How we put IPFS in Brave (2021) by usrn on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @10:36AM (#31505165)
No it isn't? Unless you're doing something with the microphone or video there's no implication there.
Re:How we put IPFS in Brave (2021) by dleslie on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:34AM (#31506027)
Sure there is. If it needs hardware access for a function then without it that function breaks.
Re:How we put IPFS in Brave (2021) by dleslie on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @08:51AM (#31503802)
It's no more confusing than the warning provided for self signed certificates.