Comment by otterley | Hacker News Reader

Comment by otterley | Hacker News Reader

Probably because they don't see an important business case for it. Like everyone else, Google has limited resources and an enormous laundry list of business priorities around Chrome that involve all sorts of functionality besides IPFS. These include device compatibility, media capabilities, updates to the various HTML/CSS specifications, JavaScript and other automation functionality, etc. Then there's the never-ending list of bugs to be fixed.

You can, of course, try your hand at adding it yourself, or persuade others to add it - the core (Chromium) is open-source, after all. You can also try to assemble a critical mass of customers to persuade Google to add it.

(I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, but this post comes off as somewhat entitled, as though Google is your personal engineering team.)

More than that, Google actually has business reasons to resist all decentralization. Even shitty half-assed decentralization like IPFS.

Got it, yeah I wonder if Google will lose customers to Brave :) It just seems like low hanging fruit. But I understand about other features. And writing from a genuine point of curiosity, not trying to sound entitled.

Google may or may not lose users to Brave but on the macro level it won't be because of a niche protocol that most non-technical people associate with child porn and darknet drug markets, if they have heard of it at all.

I've actually heard really good things about Brave as a legitimate browser, haven't heard such negative reactions.

They're not saying people associate the Brave browser with child porn/illicit markets, but rather the IPFS protocol

If Brave already does what you want, why not use it? Safari is my primary browser, but sometimes I have to fall back to Firefox or Chrome because reasons. :-)

It's not really in entrenched interests to implement IPFS. They lose a control/injection point.

For example, YouTube without the ability to log who's watching what, when, and without the ability to inject ads. Same for TikTok/Facebook/etc..

Walled gardens, even those with gently sloped walls, have few reasons to cultivate the wild beyond their control. Except maybe to show users outside the way into their garden.

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