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I'm not sure I follow. This new service requires cooperation with a specific browser on the other end of a centralized service in order to get any content at al
by sirclueless 15y ago
I'm not sure I follow. This new service requires cooperation with a specific browser on the other end of a centralized service in order to get any content at all.
Compared to a uniform resource locator on top of a dynamic, distributed naming system connected by a robust, global packet-switching network, I'd say this new system is way less "content-centric" and way more sensitive to the content's source.
- gojomo 15y agoYou're right; I'm projecting my own hopes about what a pure-JS, all-in-browser peer-to-peer sharing stack could do, rather than considering just the specifics of this quick-and-dirty shared folder approach (which isn't even yet p2p, though that's clearly the hope). Once the remaining browser pieces are in place (via either WebRTC or another shim), a content-centric DHT beyond just shared folders could be the next step. You could have "trackerless torrenting in a tab". Or even "Tor-in-a-tab".