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Re: Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market

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Post by jraph »

pseudosavant wrote: post #16
achingtooth wrote: post #3

It'd be interesting to see 'super private browsing mode' which has Tor integration be shipped with Firefox. Making Tor easier to use and more accessible for normal people is a huge win for privacy.

I know it isn't Firefox, but Brave is a Chromium-based browser that has Tor built-in with their 'Private Tabs'. It is a really nice privacy focused browser. Everything good about Chrome, without everything bad about Google.

> Everything good about Chrome, without everything bad about Google.

Except, of course, its use of the chromium engine, which is something I think we should fight against. So, basically, one of the biggest anti-features of Chrome from Google.

Not to speak about Brave's business model, around basic attention tokens (my attention is not available, sorry). This is incompatible with privacy. Brave is an ad company! It may be in a nice phase where ads are opt in but it may not be like that forever.

The obvious browser closest to Firefox including Tor is Tor browser, based on Firefox, provided by the Tor project itself.

Re: Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market

#32

Post by xref »

jraph wrote: post #31
pseudosavant wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know it isn't Firefox, but Brave is a Chromium-based browser that has Tor built-in with their 'Private Tabs'. It is a really nice privacy focused browser. Everything good about Chrome, without everything bad about Google.

> Everything good about Chrome, without everything bad about Google. Except, of course, its use of the chromium engine, which is something I think we should fight against. So, basically, one of the biggest anti-features of Chrome from Google. Not to speak about Brave's business model, around basic attention tokens (my attention is not available, sorry). This is incompatible with privacy. Brave is an ad company! It ma…

You mention the two most important points about Brave that are mostly overlooked when it is suggested as an alternative to Chrome:

1) There is no ecosystem diversification, Brave is built on Chrome!

2) Brave. Is. An. Ad. Company.

Re: Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market

#33

Post by zaarn »

pseudosavant wrote: post #16
achingtooth wrote: post #3

It'd be interesting to see 'super private browsing mode' which has Tor integration be shipped with Firefox. Making Tor easier to use and more accessible for normal people is a huge win for privacy.

I know it isn't Firefox, but Brave is a Chromium-based browser that has Tor built-in with their 'Private Tabs'. It is a really nice privacy focused browser. Everything good about Chrome, without everything bad about Google.

The very continued existence of Chrome is the bad thing about Google, Brave can only fix that by using the Firefox engine.

Re: Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market

#34

Post by chii »

gruez wrote: post #26
pseudosavant wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know it isn't Firefox, but Brave is a Chromium-based browser that has Tor built-in with their 'Private Tabs'. It is a really nice privacy focused browser. Everything good about Chrome, without everything bad about Google.

Tor tabs is useless without fingerprinting resistance, otherwise you still can be tracked.

Tor usage must be coupled with disabling of JavaScript. Otherwise, you will leak data regardless.

Re: Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market

#36

Post by jumbopapa »

daphneokeefe wrote: post #25
jumbopapa wrote: post #12

If you're using Firefox go to about:config and set media.autoplay.allow-muted to false. Blocks all of those pesky autoplay videos!

No, that doesn't stop the videos from playing. It only mutes them. You still have the visual interference of the animation, along with unwillingly downloading massive amounts of video data.

That's not how it works at all... Firefox allows muted autoplay videos by default, but if you enable said flag it will prevent everything.

Re: Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market

#37

Post by jumbopapa »

Zenbit_UX wrote: post #23
jumbopapa wrote: post #12

If you're using Firefox go to about:config and set media.autoplay.allow-muted to false. Blocks all of those pesky autoplay videos!

This is a default feature as of the latest version.

The default feature is to mute autoplay videos that have audio, so you need to enable this to prevent all autoplay.

Re: Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market

#38

Post by onyva »

mirimir wrote: post #22
Mindless2112 wrote: post #17

I wish Mozilla would get into the email service market. I could really go for a reasonably-priced, ad-free, Gmail-sized, bring-your-own-domain email service.

There's speculation in TFA about Mozilla buying ProtonMail/ProtonVPN.

I hope it’s true. I’d love to support financially an added value service by Mozilla.

Re: Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market

#39

Post by onyva »

jraph wrote: post #31
pseudosavant wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know it isn't Firefox, but Brave is a Chromium-based browser that has Tor built-in with their 'Private Tabs'. It is a really nice privacy focused browser. Everything good about Chrome, without everything bad about Google.

> Everything good about Chrome, without everything bad about Google. Except, of course, its use of the chromium engine, which is something I think we should fight against. So, basically, one of the biggest anti-features of Chrome from Google. Not to speak about Brave's business model, around basic attention tokens (my attention is not available, sorry). This is incompatible with privacy. Brave is an ad company! It ma…

The only added value that’s important is respecting users rights online and privacy. Brave is as bad as any of them, and being Eich’s new business venture doesn’t inspire any trust none what so ever.

Re: Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market

#40

Post by jraph »

onyva wrote: post #39
jraph wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Everything good about Chrome, without everything bad about Google. Except, of course, its use of the chromium engine, which is something I think we should fight against. So, basically, one of the biggest anti-features of Chrome from Google. Not to speak about Brave's business model, around basic attention tokens (my attention is not available, sorry). This is incompatible with privacy. Brave is an ad company! It ma…

The only added value that’s important is respecting users rights online and privacy. Brave is as bad as any of them, and being Eich’s new business venture doesn’t inspire any trust none what so ever.

> being Eich’s new business venture doesn’t inspire any trust none what so ever.

Why?

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