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Sorry to hear, but you are not alone [0]. It was matter of time for a new tech to be exploited like that. Providing IPFS gateway is like opening up public HTTP

Sorry to hear, but you are not alone [0]. It was matter of time for a new tech to be exploited like that. Providing IPFS gateway is like opening up public HTTP proxy (popular back in 90s). You had good intentions, but there will be lot of nasty things going thru your machine. Of course guys like Cloudflare can absorb arising liability but I think they will shutdown their gateway at some point. I think the best way to popularize IPFS will be out-of-the box support in major browsers. I think Mozilla may be the first one here. [0] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/phishing-attacks-distributed-through-cloudflares-ipfs-gateway/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/phishing-atta...

akerro 8y ago
Mozilla talks a lot and don't do much in this direction, they promised Tor integration like 4-5 years ago and all they did is setup 3 middle-nodes. Brave Browser already has Tor integration in private tabs and working IPFS integration on -dev channel since beginning of this year https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/819 https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/819
- diggan 8y ago
  I don't know how they worked on the Tor integration, but I do know they are actively working towards helping dweb implementations in the browser. https://github.com/mozilla/libdweb https://github.com/mozilla/libdweb is one of the efforts, and it provides experimental APIs needed in Firefox to have a nice experience. So AFAIK, Mozilla not only talks about dweb, but also helps with the effort.
- jerheinze 8y ago
  > they promised Tor integration like 4-5 years ago and all they did is setup 3 middle-nodes. They never promised any Tor integration for the near future, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17205441 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17205441 and the first comment. Brave can do Tor integration because its user bases is much smaller than Mozilla's (scaling the Tor network to support the load from all FF users still requires much work).
kordlessagain 8y ago
> I think the best way to popularize IPFS will be out-of-the box support in major browsers. On demand gateways with micropayments might also do the trick.

akerro 8y ago

Mozilla talks a lot and don't do much in this direction, they promised Tor integration like 4-5 years ago and all they did is setup 3 middle-nodes. Brave Browser already has Tor integration in private tabs and working IPFS integration on -dev channel since beginning of this year https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/819 https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/819

diggan 8y ago
I don't know how they worked on the Tor integration, but I do know they are actively working towards helping dweb implementations in the browser. https://github.com/mozilla/libdweb https://github.com/mozilla/libdweb is one of the efforts, and it provides experimental APIs needed in Firefox to have a nice experience. So AFAIK, Mozilla not only talks about dweb, but also helps with the effort.
jerheinze 8y ago
> they promised Tor integration like 4-5 years ago and all they did is setup 3 middle-nodes. They never promised any Tor integration for the near future, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17205441 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17205441 and the first comment. Brave can do Tor integration because its user bases is much smaller than Mozilla's (scaling the Tor network to support the load from all FF users still requires much work).

kordlessagain 8y ago

> I think the best way to popularize IPFS will be out-of-the box support in major browsers. On demand gateways with micropayments might also do the trick.