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Brave creates new TLD on the blockchain
- Xiol32 1y agoAre we still messing about with the Blockchain? Has no one told them it's all about AI now?
- 2Gkashmiri 1y agoHow about this.. Ai powered browser that has ai powered search that builds websites as user starts typing a query. Then the endless loop of finding new and innovative websites all designed from scratch. No two experiences will be same as agents will build on the fly
- W3zzy 1y agoYou evil genious
- larodi 1y agois called widgets populated with LLM resumes then LLM-scattered across search results, dude. perplexity, the company, among others, is already producing this en masse. welcome to 2025.
- moffkalast 1y agoI'm pretty sure I've already seen this for a bash terminal. It'll happen, don't give people ideas lol.
- MomsAVoxell 1y agoThe future is performative rather than imperative.
- petesergeant 1y agoSadly there’s still a lot of money in the crypto grift
- fastball 1y agoThey do actually have an AI assistant built in to the browser. It's called Leo.
- 0x073 1y agoTLD that are not accessable by everyone are useless. And no free tls certs like letsencrypt is a huge step back.
- sshine 1y agoYour second sentence’s lack of commas makes it ambiguous. To disagree with one possible interpretation: Let’s Encrypt is a huge step forward. It provides end-to-end encryption for free, making it extremely abundant.
- Tadpole9181 1y agoFixed: > And no free tls certs, like letsencrypt, is a huge step back. They're saying that `.brave` domains are not capable of receiving Let's Encrypt certs. Which is bad.
- benatkin 1y agoFigures that they would partner with Stoppable Domains.
- varun_ch 1y ago> “.BRAVE is more than a domain—it’s a user-owned identity layer, native to the Brave ecosystem“ I’m all for free speech but this sentence structure specifically should be abolished. It’s so LLM.
- larodi 1y agodash included
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- karlgkk 1y agoAs a heavy dash user in my writing… man it sucks how LLMs have changed my writing habits.
- surgical_fire 1y agoI second that. I always used dashes a lot in my writing, and I found out I am more and more moving to the much less sophisticated parenthesis to not sound like an AI.
- jorvi 1y agoThis is one of the more insidious things of LLMs. I'm relatively witty with wordplays and can write pretty well. Before, people thought I was clever. Now, there response is often "ha nice prompt". Same with being knowledgeable. I just have a good memory, but these days often when someone asks something and I give them a fairly official definition, I get an "okay but now a real answer not the Google AI one". Feels even worse when it's actually you being smart and thinking up the answer based on knowledge. I'm not really an artist but you see it everywhere on the internet too: people post something, and the first assumption is that it's AI-generated or 80% of the work has been sketched by AI and the final effort was by the human. Weird times..
- mslansn 1y agoIt’s the tremendous amount of bloat that has made me discard Brave as a possibility when switching away from Chrome. I understand that they have to make money, but… I just wanted a Chrome fork that doesn’t get in the way.
- keysdev 1y agoUngoogled chrome
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- devrandoom 1y agoHow is Brave a scam?
- Kwpolska 1y agoThey’re pushing crypto and NFT scams really hard. Serious web browsers focus on browsing the real Web, not promoting "web3" scams.
- keysdev 1y agoWell not if the real web is centralized around a few root zone servers. TLD is broken, I can see BAT has put a bas taste in our mouth. Checkout handshake.org its similar to this, but just code
- hhh 1y agoIt’s google chrome with slop features added, and removes the “bad ads” and feeds you “good ads” by default. I have to see this slop pushing some scam every time my colleague opens a new browser tab.
- curtisblaine 1y agoCharitably, if you opt out of "good ads", it's a Chromium with an incredibly good built in ad blocker, which works seamlessly even on iOS.
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- charcircuit 1y ago>with no renewal fees This is big if they can get in the web2 DNS sysrem. No more constant rent seeking from ICANN to have a domain. No more doxing yourself to ICANN to have a domain.
- aspenmayer 1y agoI know that some folks have IPv4 blocks permanently assigned to them, as do companies. From what I understand, some folks and companies also have some URLs permanently assigned to them via registrars also, for historical reasons and via trademark and other avenues of ownership? What a privileged position to find oneself in, eh?
- charcircuit 1y agoAnd I know you have a username on Hacker News permanently assigned to you. Having a "permanent" identity is the default.
- aspenmayer 1y ago> And I know you have a username on Hacker News permanently assigned to you. Having a "permanent" identity is the default. It’s not permanent. HN does not comply with GDPR in that I can be denied authorship of my comments if my account is deleted. This is contrary to my rights as an author in the EU. also, I post under my government/slave name. What do you have on the line, anon?
- birn559 1y agoMost HN posts are not protected by EU copyright though. A certain level of intellectual creation is needed for that.
- aspenmayer 1y agoI am speaking of my posts, which I make myself, so that caveat if it even exists could not apply in my case.
- imiric 1y agoI truly wish Brave would succeed, as we need more alternative browsers that go against the established tech, but when I see PR announcements like this I can't help but think that they're digging themselves deeper into irrelevance. It's like the entire company exists within a tech bubble of buzzwords and hype that no sane person would ever want to be in, even if they understood all the technobabble, perhaps even less in that case. > “This is a bold leap toward an open internet,” said Sandy Carter, COO of Unstoppable Domains. “.brave puts digital identity in the hands of everyday users, not platforms.” Huh? How does a branded domain that can only be visited by browsers that support it contribute to an "open" internet? It's literally controlled by corporations and platforms, despite the fact that an individual can technically "own" it. I do think that BAT is a good step forward for alternative business models on the web. We need more of that and less of this Web3 nonsense.
- TheNewsIsHere 1y agoBrave exists in exactly the niche of those that desire to hear these kind of high-minded ideas, or participate in experimental attempts at such things, while not really understanding the topics involved. That isn’t an indictment of Brave’s entire user base. I tried it, and tried to like it, several times. Always kept going back to Firefox. Which Mozilla makes increasingly hard to do from a philosophical perspective, but that’s another story.
- charcircuit 1y ago>It's literally controlled by corporations and platforms The NFT based domains are controlled by a decentralized network of computers. Compare this to web2 which is actually literally controlled by corporations with registrars and ICANN. >that can only be visited by browsers that support it Unstoppable Domains already work out of the box on Brave and Opera. Other Firefox and Chromium browsers can download the web extention for it to be able to resolve the domains.
- mzajc 1y ago$ dig ns brave ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 65203 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 Another fake non-ICANN TLD? I thought people stopped falling for these.
- rpdillon 1y agoIt's weird...they talk about it resolving, but only in a Web3 context. I don't know enough to understand how it differs from a "real" TLD. > Minted on the Polygon blockchain, .brave domains will resolve across multiple networks—including Base, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Sonic, and more—making them widely compatible in the Web3 ecosystem.
- charcircuit 1y agoIn the article they mention having a goal to apply for a gTLD to be able to setup a DNS server for compatibility with things that use traditional DNS. Until then the domain resolver needs to either be built into the browser itself or installed by the user via a WebExtention.
- areyourllySorry 1y agothen they'd have to moderate that dns server, and so your domains are no longer "unstoppable"...
- charcircuit 1y agoThey already moderate their resolver. Anyone is free to setup their own uncensored one if they want.