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NordVPN shares offices in Estonia with ProtonVPN. For that reason I find it sketchy.
I would like to read more about this, do you have a source? I cannot find anything reliable that suggests this! Thanks.
Mozilla VPN
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Re: Mozilla VPN
#192"For example, over 70% of early Beta-testers say that the VPN helps them feel empowered, safe, and independent while being online." What have these "feelings" got to do with anything? This is a measure of successful marketing and has nothing to do with the product or its efficacy. Personally I use Windscribe and I really like it (I've used PIA & Mullvad in the past). I use it for watching US Netflix and to make it sl…
It sounds like a sanitary pad ad.
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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).
Yep, migrated from Gmail and very happily so :)
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#194Come 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…
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#195Isn’t $4.99 pricey for a VPN? I pay about 3 for Nord.
It is a bit pricey compared to the competition (lots of VPNs out there that cost ~$3/month) but apparently Mullvad is the VPN provider for this offering, and they cost $5 a month because they are considered one of the 'best' VPNs in terms of privacy (for example, they will accept cash payments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullvad#Privacy ).
Is it at all slow? I've found a lot of VPNs actually slow down my connection which makes me less willing to try them.
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> 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.
Tumbling coins has nothing to do with money laundering, it's just a way to anonymize them....
Tumbling coins has everything to do with money laundering. Of course, the source of the funds isn’t necessarily illicit.
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#197Forget the VPN--I already have a VPN provider and I have no interest in changing. Offer a paid e-mail service, on the other hand, and I'd sign on up Day 1.
I've heard good things from HEY[1]; I've been thinking about using their trial
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#198I 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…
No, your premise is wrong, all major browsers have committed to removing third-party cookies, or have already done so. And after third-party cookies, your IP address is the next-easiest way to track you across sites.
that Facebook cookie works regardless of what your IP address is
Firefox has been blocking third-party cookies by known trackers, including Facebook, since last year [1]. Safari started blocking all third-party cookies (not just known trackers) in March [2], and Chrome committed in January to work towards removing third-party cookies [3].
And of course, all major browsers have provided the option to block third-party cookies since before IE6. I use this option, it rarely breaks things, and it's only getting rarer—and I don't use a VPN, so this would make me measurably harder to track across sites.
[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/09/03/todays-firefox-bloc... [2]: https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocki... [3]: https://blog.chromium.org/2020/01/building-more-private-web-...
Re: Mozilla VPN
#199Every 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'm not qualified to analyze the technical details but I have some more practical grievances with VPNs. I paid for ExpressVPN for 1yr on going and found it disappointing despite being advertised as the expensive but good option.
First, geo blocking often catches it or provider has moved to other means to verify address. I don't use Netflix but for certain streaming sites in Japan that I use and BBC express does nothing.
Second, it doesn't get pass GFW whereas shadowsocks based solution does.
Overall it seems the only benefits are getting better speed sometimes and theoretical privacy benefits.
Re: Mozilla VPN
#200Every 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…
There’s a lot of gross stuff that your ISPs (which includes your mobile phone provider) do to further monetize your relationship with them, and having a VPN can negate that. ISPs can observe your DNS lookups to their servers and assemble a profile on you based on the domain names you look up, and put you into a series of audiences that marketers can then use (for a fee) for ad targeting. ISPs can also observer your D…
> ISPs can also observer your DNS lookups to Google’s or anyone else’s public DNS servers.
edw, could you elaborate on that, please? I thought changing to public DNS servers like OpenDNS provides some security from ISP tracking.