# IPFS in Brave - Native Access to the Distributed Web

**URL:** <https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/ipfs-in-brave-native-access-to-the-distributed-web/9900>\
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**Created:** [January 19, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/ipfs-in-brave-native-access-to-the-distributed-web/9900 "2021-01-19T17:11:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/ipfs1/original/1X/035cb0e41547e8c019cdfd4466a4736c843af1c9.png) [@system](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/ipfs-in-brave-native-access-to-the-distributed-web/9900/1 "2021-01-19T17:11:50Z")

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by Dietrich Ayala on 2021-01-19

We are excited to announce that IPFS is now natively supported in the Brave web browser. With [over 20 million users](https://brave.com/20m-mau/), Brave has made the distributed web easily available for the people who need it most. This is the first time a major browser has implemented native support for IPFS, and is a major step towards a more resilient, user-first internet.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://blog.ipfs.io/2021-01-19-ipfs-in-brave](https://blog.ipfs.io/2021-01-19-ipfs-in-brave)

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**Author:** ![mmxxnox](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/mmxxnox/32/4503_2.png) [@mmxxnox](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/mmxxnox)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/ipfs-in-brave-native-access-to-the-distributed-web/9900/2 "2021-01-25T09:18:54Z")

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This is definitely a milestone and a very welcome one indeed 🏆🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🪅

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/ipfs1/original/1X/035cb0e41547e8c019cdfd4466a4736c843af1c9.png) [@system](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/ipfs-in-brave-native-access-to-the-distributed-web/9900/3 "2021-01-25T09:18:54Z")

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**Author:** ![bkarlan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/bkarlan/32/4764_2.png) [@bkarlan](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/bkarlan)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 10:05pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/ipfs-in-brave-native-access-to-the-distributed-web/9900/4 "2021-03-21T22:05:35Z")

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I watched the video on Brave’s site about IPFS but for a hobbyist type ‘technical person’, I still have little more idea of how to set this up nor why I should. I get the basics that they are trying to give the web more freedom by taking away power from the gatekeepers of information, whether corporate or governmental. But I tried installing something, I think the node, and I noticed that Brave had become all but unusable soon afterwards as no pages would load. Whether or not that was related to this ‘node’ I have no idea. But from the video and other Brave pages I see that there is more than a ‘node’ to install but again the information is poorly presented and I’m unable to determine if I had set it up properly before or not. If you want more acceptance of this since the benefits to doing this I probably won’t see for quite awhile, then you need to make this easier to understand and easier to install. FYI, I’m running Manjaro Gnome on a Macbook Pro Retina as my daily driver with Windows running in Virtual Box, so I have some abilities to figure all this out despite not being a ‘technical person’, but right now this more is needed to help folks like myself get onboard.