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Re: Mozilla VPN

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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…

What products and services do you want from Mozilla?

Re: Mozilla VPN

#262

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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).

Very happy Fastmail user. Not so happy that so many different services don't interoperate with it. Things like Calendly or many standalone Calendar apps. Seems like it is Apple, Google, Outlook or nothing.

Maybe I'm missing something but doesn't Fastmail use open standards? For example I access my Fastmail calendar on my phone and desktop using caldav.

Isn't it down to the app to support those standards?

Re: Mozilla VPN

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post #214
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…

I was just about to change to something different from LastPass, pretty much convinced about Bitwarden from previous HN mentions, until you mentioned Lockwise :-) care to share some pros and cons or comparison between these two?

There is also always https://www.passwordstore.org/ it is a bit more work to get everything set up, but I now have an encrypted git repo of my passwords with clients on my laptop and android phone. I cant speak to ios or macos, but there is a distinct lack of good windows gui client, which is the biggest con.

The major pro for me is that I know exactly how it is encrypted end to end, and have control over how and where it is stored, and can move the storage as I please, all entirely for free.

Re: Mozilla VPN

#264

As a security person, I am somewhat baffled by the popularity of VPNs. I have no idea why anyone would use them for general internet usage, and I suspect the majority of VPN service users are misinformed about what they think they are gaining. Any VPN subscribers want to fill me in? The only thing I can think of is hiding the source of pirated media being shared via bittorrent.

A lot of countries block access to websites. US and EU are not the whole world! VPN helps people to circumvent censorship.

I use a VPN daily because without it, there is no Twitter/HackerNews/Reddit/Youtube/... .

Re: Mozilla VPN

#265
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…

What products and services do you want from Mozilla?

> email, calendar, file sync, chat(?) - give me Firefox Premium

Re: Mozilla VPN

#266

As a security person, I am somewhat baffled by the popularity of VPNs. I have no idea why anyone would use them for general internet usage, and I suspect the majority of VPN service users are misinformed about what they think they are gaining. Any VPN subscribers want to fill me in? The only thing I can think of is hiding the source of pirated media being shared via bittorrent.

I use it to stream stuff on Netflix that isn't available in my country of residence.

Re: Mozilla VPN

#267

As a security person, I am somewhat baffled by the popularity of VPNs. I have no idea why anyone would use them for general internet usage, and I suspect the majority of VPN service users are misinformed about what they think they are gaining. Any VPN subscribers want to fill me in? The only thing I can think of is hiding the source of pirated media being shared via bittorrent.

Because in the US at least, part of ISPs business model comes from deep packet inspection of customers websites, dns queries, habits and subsequent selling (or using) that data. If you have a trusted VPN you can prevent that data and privacy siphoning. "trusted" VPN company is a discussion for another time...

Re: Mozilla VPN

#268
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…

If Firefox integrated with Keychain, it'd probably be my default browser again. I'd happily pay. Once Keychain got good enough, I transitioned to Safari 98% and dropped 1Password. iCloud syncing is nice too. -- Anecdotally, it just seems like a lot of web sites are poorly tested against Safari, so I run into weird stuff. Also, Safari now inevitably abends, seemingly after binging YouTube. I favor Safari, mostly becau…

Totally agree. I feel like I trust Safari in terms of privacy as well, and it works so well in the walled garden of iOS/macos. I really hope they get it up to date with the latest web standards, it's a joy to use otherwise.

Re: Mozilla VPN

#269

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I want to migrate from Gmail but I have my Gmail address tied up to so many things. How do you make the move ?

I went through all accounts in my password manager and changed it. Not so bad. It doesn't need to be done quickly.

I would make this Step #1 to the 5 or 6-step processes outlined above. Gets most of the important migration out of the way with a little work the first day.

Re: Mozilla VPN

#270

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I’ve used Fastmail for years now on a work account. It’s best feature is that it’s not Google. First, no phone support. Hardly acceptable when even Google has this. Second, no collaboration suite like Drive/Docs. Third, no addons I’m accustomed to having in my daily driver email suite. Things I miss include schedule to send later, default reply all, and no priority inbox. Im stuck using Google for email and maps. I h…

I feel a bit different: Email is a standard. You are talking about an app. Send later is the job of the application,not the standard. Same with reply all. Intelligent priority inbox is _hard_ but i. Principle the same. When you use gmail you conflate the standard with the app.

With Fastmail you're essentially buying the app as much as the service.

If you want reliable email service without the nice app, there are much cheaper alternatives.

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