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Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by AnonC »

Beefin wrote: post #352
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…

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

The GP seems to be asking for hosted services on a subscription model for email, calendar, etc., and not for the applications alone.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by AnonC »

metrokoi wrote: post #312
esperent wrote: post #308

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Privacy

I don't think it's a good idea to give any company a monopoly on your data even if you trust them.

Why would it be a monopoly? If you use something that uses open standards and provides ways to export or backup your data, you can move anytime.

Taken a little deeper, your statement would imply that people should build and maintain their own data centers and host all services by themselves (this argument could be stretched even further).

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by jabirali »

j1elo wrote: post #214
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…

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?

To throw in a less conventional option, I've been very happy with MasterPassword [1] myself. I mostly just use use the browser plugin (Firefox/Chrome) and mobile app (iOS/Android).

Unlike the other options, it's a deterministic password manager. This means that you don't need to sync anything, and there's no risk of losing your password database. As long as you know what website you're signing in to, and remember your one master password, you can regenerate all other passwords.

[1]: https://masterpassword.app/

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by intopieces »

meribold wrote: post #373
intopieces wrote: post #339

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I could probably find an address you don't want to just block once I know your firstandlast.com domain. Why not use @fastmail.com (or any of Fastmail's other domains) for throwaway aliases?

I don’t doubt that you could, but in my experience spammers are invested enough in a single individual to get clever. We’ll see. I enjoy having a predictably unique login for each site {site@firstandlast.com}.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by rascul »

zrobotics wrote: post #369
qchris wrote: post #227

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I'm in exactly the same boat. Paying for the VPN to use on exactly one device because everything else is Linux, and would happily put more money towards it if they offered a paid equivalent to GSuite that was privacy-respecting.

Question--why does everything else being Linux negate the need for a VPN? AFAIK, aren't the main reasons for a VPN bypassing georestricted content and avoiding ISP snooping? I don't see how running Linux negates any of these, and routing through a VPN certainly doesn't stop win10 from exfiltrating data.

Mozilla VPN is not yet available for Linux.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by yalogin »

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…

Oh wow. I haven't thought of this till now. But you are absolutely right. I would totally trust Mozilla to provide me the privacy sensitive alternatives to google and would definitely pay for them too.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by pmontra »

jtrip wrote: post #215
bobajeff wrote: post #202

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I still want Mozilla to release a Android keyboard.

I believe the 'AnySoftKeyboard' is a good opensource alternative for Android, no?

Gesture typing (swipe) is still in beta and didn't work much the last time I checked. I'm posting this by swiping on SwiftKey. I've been using swiping keyboards since 2011 and I won't go back to tapping buttons.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by frei »

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

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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.

Complaining about a reproducible issue on a public forum works. Even if you don't get direct feedback, there's a good chance it will get quickly forwarded to an teams' internal mailing list.

A lot of google engineers read hacker news comments, reddit threads, etc. all the time, and generally try and route good feedback where it belongs.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by wiether »

Since they are using the infrastructure of Mullvad, what's the point of using Mozilla's software instead of using directly Mullvad's ?

Price related I'm paying 5€/month for Mullvad and Mozilla's VPN is at $4.99/month so when it will be available in Europe I expect it to be 4.99€.

If they where offering something more, I'll see the point, but here by them developping their own software to use someone else infrastructure seems to be a huge waste. If they wanted to put their Mozilla logo, they should have gone for a white-label product with Mullvad no ?

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by godelski »

lub wrote: post #258
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…

> chat This already exists: https://chat.mozilla.org/ You can use it with your Firefox account.

I've been hanging for about 20 minutes. What is this?
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