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So I only kind of understand magnet links. But it seems like I could create a Chrome plugin that took every page I visited and turned the assets into magnet lin
by michaelbuckbee 10y ago
So I only kind of understand magnet links. But it seems like I could create a Chrome plugin that took every page I visited and turned the assets into magnet links and started request/seeding them on pageload. Is that analogous to what they're doing?
- kinlan 10y agoYou need access to the Blob data to seed that. You could get that by making HTTP requests to each of the resources on the page and then to seed that (however, as soon as you navigate away from the page there are no more seeders so the data is no longer available)
- michaelbuckbee 10y agoWell plugins are powerful things - I bet you could cache blobs in the browser for a bit as long as it was still open.
- tjohns 10y agoI think you just described IPFS (http://ipfs.io http://ipfs.io), actually. :)