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Most browsers have great support via the IPFS Companion ( https://docs.ipfs.io/install/ipfs-companion/ ) and that is better since it is easy to have an IPFS node running locally since it is quite efficient.

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>and that is better since it is easy to have an IPFS node running locally since it is quite efficient.

No, it isn't.

Seconding this. Unless something's changed, my experience with the default Go daemon they provide was shock at how much resources it consumed in the background. It was something like 12% CPU usage while doing nothing at all for hours on end - I wasn't even accessing any ipfs content.

I see less than 1% cpu usage and 200mb memory usage and 4% spikes while serving my personal website or fetching an IPFS resource.

(Though on a Linux system I also modified the low water setting up to 1000 peers and the high water setting to 2000 peers)

Yeah I just tried downloading the latest version and it looks much better now. I remember I tried ~3 years ago or so and it was horribly inefficient, so I deleted it, then gave it another shot around a year ago and came to the same conclusion.

But yes, from running it ~10 minutes just now, it looks quite reasonable.

12-32% on a Macbook Pro 2019.

I don't think I'm going to adopt this.

Yeah, they did improve it recently (within the past year or so). I see that Brave uses a gateway by default, I guess that's good for adoption but bad for decentralization. Then again, users don't care about decentralization as much as they care about convenience, so that's a good first step.

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