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Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by miniyarov »

satoshivpn wrote: post #31

What good is a VPN if you have to reveal all of your personally identifiable information to the vendor? You're better off using Mullvad directly--it looks like they don't require you to fork over personal information to use their service. Shameless plug: SatoshiVPN ( https://satoshivpn.com ) gives you access to your own private and anonymous VPN server with Outline pre-installed, no questions asked. Payments in Bitco…

Public VPN services should not be trusted blindly. Online anonymity is very hard. However, you can still create your own VPN server on cloud providers for at least have some privacy while you are on an untrusted network.

Because of this reason, I created https://zudvpn.com - It is a free and open-source mobile application that's used to deploy a private VPN server on major Cloud Providers!

Github repo: https://github.com/zudvpn/ZudVPN

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by belzebalex »

somurzakov wrote: post #164
DCKing wrote: post #141

Come on Mozilla, hurry up! I want to give you money for goods and services (I also donate monthly [1]), but I'm not that interested in a VPN (I can and do also pay Mullvad). Give me that real internet stuff - email, calendar, file sync, chat(?) - give me Firefox Premium. Bundle in the Lockwise password manager. I'd pay good money to see a company fill the void of paid, privacy first essential internet services and I…

internet scale email, calendar, password manager, OpenID auth provider, VPN, browser + integrated search via DDG = everybody's dream

I know upvote already exists, but I deeply want to +1 on this one. If Mozilla does it, I'd be a happy customer to.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by lilyball »

typon wrote: post #147
DCKing wrote: post #141

Come on Mozilla, hurry up! I want to give you money for goods and services (I also donate monthly [1]), but I'm not that interested in a VPN (I can and do also pay Mullvad). Give me that real internet stuff - email, calendar, file sync, chat(?) - give me Firefox Premium. Bundle in the Lockwise password manager. I'd pay good money to see a company fill the void of paid, privacy first essential internet services and I…

Only Mozilla can make me pay for Google services like Email/Calendar etc. I think I subconsciously trust the brand more than most internet companies out there.

How about FastMail? They have a stellar email service. They also offer contacts and calendars, though I don't personally use those (I use iCloud for that).

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by tafl »

Shank wrote: post #151
tafl wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I've heard this one before. I use Mullvad, paid using BTC that came straight from a tumbler. I don't use it for any nefarious reasons, just wanted to see how such a setup would work. It was surprisingly painless. I think it took 15 minutes in total from moving my btc to the tumbler and having the tumbler move the btc to my Mullvad account. Am I 100% secure? No, they know what IP I'm connecting from. Is my name a…

> I use Mullvad, paid using BTC that came straight from a tumbler. I don't use it for any nefarious reasons, just wanted to see how such a setup would work. > But again, I didn't do it to stay "safe" or anonymous. I sincerely hope that you're trying to stay safe if you're admitting to money laundering on a public forum.

Like cyberpunk said. It's not money laundering, it's a way of anonymising the bitcoins.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by pgt »

If Mozilla launched Momail or Firemail, I'd pay for it before paying for HEY or Fastmail.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by RealStickman_ »

miniyarov wrote: post #142
r3trohack3r wrote: post #111

Every time someone mentions a VPN provider in my techie social circles, the "A VPN doesn't protect you" crowd piles in, usually with links to something like: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29 I don't understand this argument, but would like to. I run https://everytwoyears.org , a political non-profit focused on ending the warrantless metadata collection of U.S. citizens' communications. From every…

This is very totally legit that public VPN services are complete trash. Online anonymity is very hard. However, you can still create your own VPN server on cloud providers for at least have some privacy while you are on an untrusted network. Because of this reason, I created zudvpn.com - It is a free and open-source mobile application that's used to deploy a private VPN server on major Cloud Providers! Github repo: h…

Why would a VPS server be any more secure than a VPN provider? They have the same ability to view outgoing traffic and can very easily log the source ip address.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by toohotatopic »

jrockway wrote: post #69

I am surprised at how much money exists in the VPN industry. Whenever I watch even a mildly-popular YouTube video, it always has an advertisement for the latest VPN provider. As far as I can tell, there is only one reason there is this much money in the field -- to subscribe to US-based video streaming services from outside the US. But they never ever say that that's the reason, they always say things like "work from…

1Tbyte for $1-$0.5, that gives you 30Gbyte per day. At $5 resale, there's some room for profits.

If I am not mistaken, that's 10 hours of video streaming in excellent quality per day.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by fataliss »

koheripbal wrote: post #127
r3trohack3r wrote: post #111

Every time someone mentions a VPN provider in my techie social circles, the "A VPN doesn't protect you" crowd piles in, usually with links to something like: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29 I don't understand this argument, but would like to. I run https://everytwoyears.org , a political non-profit focused on ending the warrantless metadata collection of U.S. citizens' communications. From every…

I think you are correct that VPNs are a sort of half-solution. There are a lot of people that think anything less than 100% isn't worth your time, so they suggest TOR - but TOR has all sorts of annoying limitations that preclude daily usage. Absolute solutions are seldom worth the 10x extra effort they frequently require. Another set of half-solutions can be seen here which will make you more secure... https://www.cl…

Do you have a good write up on how to get all that setup by any chance? Also, any body has a comparison of Brave vs Firefox when it comes to privacy?

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by r3trohack3r »

satoshivpn wrote: post #150
r3trohack3r wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assuming Mozilla isn't compelled by law to share it's entire database of user information on a rolling basis without a warrant, I suspect (in the U.S.) it would be somewhat effective at shielding yourself from bulk metadata collection (government mass surveillance) of your online communications by obfuscating that metadata. Compare this to your ISP and telecom providers. A subset of the larger providers willingly han…

You know what they say about assumptions.

We know as of 2013 this was the case. Participating in the government's bulk metadata collection was voluntary. 2013 is a long time ago though.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by deepbreath »

johnklos wrote: post #106
jefftk wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The privacy policy for 8.8.8.8 is actually really good: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy I wish more google products were so explicit in what they log and for what purposes. (Disclosure: I work for Google)

Not related to this thread: Do you have any way to communicate with actual humans inside of Google who can do anything? There are demonstrable issues with 8.8.8.8, yet I cannot get anything but the occasional form response from every address I've tried.

Could you point what you believe to be the issues in the thread?
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