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Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by saurik »

afiori wrote: post #299
stilisstuk wrote: post #254

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The point of these discussions is that the standard (IMAP specifically) is inadequate to a lot of modern use. One good thing that Fastmail is doing is promoting a REST-like IMAP alternative ( https://jmap.io/ ) that makes it easier[1] to go back to the distinction application/protocol. [1] by this I mean that implementing an app like gmail over IMAP would be a terrible idea, while JMAP would be at least a bit better…

What, exactly, do you feel is deficient about IMAP vs. JMAP, other than the latter being a protocol that doesn't require a bespoke parser? The only thing even remotely semi-annoying about IMAP that I can think of is the way message identifiers are per-connection (but in some very important way that actually makes sense).

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by systematical »

edw wrote: post #182
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…

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…

Good thing we don't willingly give that data to anyone.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by toast0 »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #243
lilyball wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

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've gotten better email support from fastmail than phone support from G Suite. It's not much use getting on the phone with people who can't solve any problems. Especially since you can't get on the phone with them unless you can login to see the code, and chances are auth issues are about the only actionable thing they'll actually help you with.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

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…

Cries in FirefoxOS.

Especially when a small unknown company can take the same abandoned platform to become a viable player in the smartphone ecosystem[1] just by targeting the right device for the OS & right strategic partnerships.

At least Mozilla seems to have signed a deal with KaiOS to develop the Gecko engine further[2].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS

[2]https://www.kaiostech.com/press/kaios-technologies-and-mozil...

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by jacobsenscott »

phyzome wrote: post #319
godzillabrennus wrote: post #243

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

« First, no phone support. Hardly acceptable when even Google has this. » ...you can reach Google over the phone?

Do people use phone support? I've never used it for anything in my life. If I was unable to make something work without phone support I would just switch to another service.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by gzer0 »

E5JBK7UJPT wrote: post #191
gzer0 wrote: post #79

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I would like to read more about this, do you have a source? I cannot find anything reliable that suggests this! Thanks.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/8ww4h2/protonvpn...

This suggests the opposite of what you say in your original comment.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by AnonC »

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…

Just to be clear, your donation at donate.mozilla.org goes to Mozilla Foundation. It doesn’t support the development of Firefox or other products, which are part of Mozilla Corporation (which gets about 90% or more of its revenue from the Google search partnership). This doesn’t mean your donation is useless, but it may not be going where one might think it’s going.

I agree with your second paragraph, which is more in line with directly supporting Firefox and other products with money.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by lifthrasiir »

_jal wrote: post #229
Kelamir wrote: post #200

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> 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.

In addition to the lack of encryption mentioned, some ISPs transparently intercept DNS requests and reply to them with their own. Test your own ISP: try something like nslookup news.ycombinator.com 1.2.3.4 If you get a response, your ISP is gaslighting you.

Some ISPs even tried to replace NXDOMAIN replies with their own "services". That was particularly popular in the last decade, though I haven't seen any recently.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by chrismorgan »

PhilippGille wrote: post #273
lilyball wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Wasn't there a privacy problem because of the Australian encryption law [1] and the company being based in Australia? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18636076

That legislation would affect things for a service like ProtonMail, but although it’s ill-conceived doesn’t affect Fastmail: https://fastmail.blog/2018/12/21/advocating-for-privacy-aabi...
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