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
That just sound like every other dumb pitch that pretends to be solving some supposed problem by applying buzzword technology to invent a new solution to some other problem that was solved in the 70s. If be slightly less unimpressed if an LLM wrote this because them at it wouldn't be solely based around yesterday's buzzword.
It’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.
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.
I 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?
I 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.
Brave 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.
>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.
It'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.
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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
I’m all for free speech but this sentence structure specifically should be abolished. It’s so LLM.
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.
> “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.
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.
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.
And no free tls certs like letsencrypt is a huge step back.
Let’s Encrypt is a huge step forward. It provides end-to-end encryption for free, making it extremely abundant.
> 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.