Brave creates new TLD on the blockchain
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·June 29, 2025mzajc
varun_ch
> “.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.
snickerbockers
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.
larodi
dash included
Etheryte
It's not a good proxy to detect LLM generated text. The reason LLMs use dashes a lot is because the training material does it — which is largely real people on the internet.
jorvi
No.
The reason why people call it the "AI dash" (technically an em dash) is because it is very rarely used in day-to-day writing. You mostly see it in longform things like articles or books.
It's a classic example of "people are good at telling you where the problem is, but wrong about what the problem is". The em dashes are not natural, but they are human. Just the wrong human context.
aspenmayer
Please stop giving cover to posers or you may be considered a poser by proxy.
*-dash is the neoshibboleth.
karlgkk
As a heavy dash user in my writing… man it sucks how LLMs have changed my writing habits.
jorvi
This 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..
surgical_fire
I 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.
atoav
I understand — the last straw I am grabbing is that I like to surround dashes with spaces, which is a thing LLMs don't tend to do. But I am not sure if people are details-oriented enough to notice..
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mslansn
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.
Xiol32
Are we still messing about with the Blockchain?
Has no one told them it's all about AI now?
fastball
They do actually have an AI assistant built in to the browser. It's called Leo.
2Gkashmiri
How 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
MomsAVoxell
The future is performative rather than imperative.
moffkalast
I'm pretty sure I've already seen this for a bash terminal. It'll happen, don't give people ideas lol.
W3zzy
You evil genious
larodi
is 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.
petesergeant
Sadly there’s still a lot of money in the crypto grift
imiric
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.
0x073
TLD that are not accessable by everyone are useless.
And no free tls certs like letsencrypt is a huge step back.
benatkin
Figures that they would partner with Stoppable Domains.
charcircuit
>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.
rs186
I mean, I expect ICANN to exist for much longer than Brave will.
charcircuit
And I expect Polygon, the blockchain these domains will be on, to last longer than both of them.
aspenmayer
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?
charcircuit
And I know you have a username on Hacker News permanently assigned to you. Having a "permanent" identity is the default.
aspenmayer
> 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?
Kwpolska
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devrandoom
How is Brave a scam?
Kwpolska
They’re pushing crypto and NFT scams really hard. Serious web browsers focus on browsing the real Web, not promoting "web3" scams.
keysdev
Well 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
It’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
Charitably, 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.
leokennis
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surgical_fire
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