It's disheartening that Mozilla is continuing to actively avoid partnering with the Tor project for problems like this, despite the fact that the Tor project has contributed to Firefox for many years (mostly related to fingerprint resistance). I get that Mozilla needs to make money, but the fact that they still haven't made "private browsing mode" actually private by making it use Tor is a real shame.
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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.
Such as?
I'm a very happy migadu.com user. Set fee for unlimited storage and unlimited addresses. Very simple but effective admin UI too.
Re: Mozilla VPN
#343It's disheartening that Mozilla is continuing to actively avoid partnering with the Tor project for problems like this, despite the fact that the Tor project has contributed to Firefox for many years (mostly related to fingerprint resistance). I get that Mozilla needs to make money, but the fact that they still haven't made "private browsing mode" actually private by making it use Tor is a real shame.
The amount of exit nodes would be insane. And I don’t think Mozilla would want the liability of running them.
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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?
Fastmail does support the CalDAV standard, but calendly does not: https://help.calendly.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/245299227...
That’s entirely calendly’s fault.
Re: Mozilla VPN
#346Come 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…
Paying for a browser in this day and age would really bring Mozilla full-circle back to Netscape in the 90's. Time for them to reclaim the throne.
Who said anything about the browser? We are talking about the data, aren't we?
Re: Mozilla VPN
#347Opera already has a free VPN built into their browser.
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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).
Fastmail's domain feature is the killer app for me. I have my @firstandlast.com secured for $7/year or something, and I can make anything@firstandlast.com and if someone starts spamming me I can just block it.
One thing I'd recommend is making throwaway email addresses using one the domains they own (I think have around a 100). That way, if a spammer gets its, they won't know your domain, and try spamming other username at the domain.
Re: Mozilla VPN
#349Come 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…
Forgive me, but this feels like a circle-jerk. Do you REALLY don't care at all about whether they can be trusted? Do you really think they shouldn't be vetted, or held to explain their pro-certain-for-profit-companies decisions?
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#350How do we know this is safe from bad actors? If it's in the U.S. is it safe from discovery? For example Watchtower tried to use 'copyright Infringement' to force reddit to give a usernames IP and account information. https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkdgWccrJAy53-jeBxM3Pk_... VPN's are the only way of protecting what should be protected speech. You have to not keep logs or anything that allows a court to find the…
> How do we know this is safe from bad actors? You don't. You never will. This is the case not just for Mozilla but for all VPN services. Until there's some kind of hardware-level attestation that verifies a server is running a particular software installation, that's going to remain the case. > VPN's are the only way of protecting what should be protected speech. No, if you want safety, a VPN is not the solution. VP…
> to a different, often less-regulated ISP
"Less-regulated" is usually the entire point of using a VPN. Regulations force your local ISP to keep detailed logs and reveal who was using a certain IP address at a certain time to various entities based on sketchy circumstantial evidence. If you go through a VPN then anyone trying to track back the IP address has to go through the VPN provider first—who probably doesn't keep such detailed access logs, and may well be in a completely different jurisdiction—before they can even begin to approach your local ISP. You certainly shouldn't rely on it exclusively, but it's an important part of defense-in-depth.