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Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by neilparikh »

bad_user wrote: post #401
neilparikh wrote: post #348

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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.

I don't think that's a good recommendation. Spammers are going to find your domain name and spam it at obvious usernames anyway (eg contact@). Besides what use-case do people have for throwaway addresses? In my experience in most cases the addresses you use aren't throwaway at all. Fastmail does subdomain aliasing and I've been using that for years with my own domain without issues. Every subscription I have has its…

I guess "throwaway" is the wrong word. In my case, I created a few emails under Fastmail's domains and then used them to sign up for things like reddit, newsletters etc, where I don't need to tie it to my identity.

I don't think it's a given that spammers will find your domain, if you only provide your email to real people, and give generated emails to online services.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by krn »

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…

There are many VPN services that begin just by reselling white-label VPN solutions, such as provided by NordVPN[1], because it's much cheaper and easier than building your own globally distributed high-capacity and low-latency network. I hope that Mozilla didn't go down this route, as many suspect ProtonVPN did[2], which Mozilla has partnered in the past with[3]. In fact, given that partnership I wouldn't be surprised, if Mozilla VPN was just a rebranded ProtonVPN service underneath. That would bring additional income to Mozilla without taking away any of the development resources from Firefox, and could be seen as a win-win situation by both companies.

[1] https://nordvpn.com/white-label/

[2] https://vpnscam.com/tesonet-data-mining-company-owns-nordvpn...

[3] https://protonvpn.com/blog/mozilla-partnership/

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by dang »

abofh wrote: post #292
deepbreath wrote: post #157

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If nothing else, it significantly reduces the entropy of your IP when websites are fingerprinting you, especially if your ISP assigns you a static IP. Even if you don't have a static IP, I suspect the entropy of your /24 (IPv4) is also a lot smaller when over VPN.

Do you understand the words you're using?

Personal attacks aren't ok here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting, we'd be grateful.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by aiNohY6g »

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…

>3 years ago, in french: https://linuxfr.org/users/aurelieng/journaux/mozilla-l-enjeu... (can be translated with your favorite tool).

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by AnonC »

staplers wrote: post #238
j1elo wrote: post #214

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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?

Currently using both, Bitwarden is much more robust, customizable, and safe (audited by 3rd party). Lockwise is great if you want a simple pw manager for browsing online but Bitwarden is like a "life" manager that can store addresses, credit cards, notes, passwords, etc.

I use Bitwarden as my main password manager. But Bitwarden is still lacking in the "life" management part because common things like WiFi passwords or software licenses need to be added as custom entities. Managing those is not easy with Bitwarden. I stopped using 1Password long ago (when it moved to a subscription model), but it has had many more rich types to manage for a long time. Bitwarden has a long way to go.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by dannyw »

laughinghan wrote: post #198
jrockway wrote: post #69

I 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 thir…

Keep in mind that Chrome also sends a high-entropy identifier that is certainly sufficient to identify you in combination with an IP address, to every Google property, including DoubleClick, on every request (first or third party).

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by stormdennis »

jacobsenscott wrote: post #386
phyzome wrote: post #319

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« 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.

I once got on to Microsoft for some phone support, After asking me lots of questions about myself which were necessary before they could answer the specific question I'd already asked, the person on the other end finished up by saying that this was a question I needed to put instead to the vendor who had sold me the product. I can't remember if they asked if there was anything else they could help me with today.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by campl3r »

mynegation wrote: post #320
dmit wrote: post #249

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Here are the steps I've been following: 1) Sign up for Fastmail. 2) Sync all mail from GMail account to Fastmail (via the Fastmail web UI; you grant FM access to your GMail data through OAuth - once sync is complete you can revoke this access). 3) Set up an auto-forward rule in GMail for all incoming mail to go to your Fastmail address. 4) Set up a rule in Fastmail to put all incoming mail sent to your GMail address…

And most importantly: 0) Get your own domain and set up MX record to fastmail servers This way if you ever migrate again, you will not need to do it all over again. One word of advice - keep your registrar login and emails associated with the domains _not_ on your domain, otherwise it is going to present a problem should you ever need to fix anything related to domains.

And keep addresses, phone numbers, alternative emails, payment details up to date with your domain registrar.

Recently my provider decided to randomly cancel my domain, getting it back from transfer with everything out of date was painful.

Re: Mozilla VPN

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Post by stormdennis »

sgc wrote: post #374
krrrh wrote: post #372

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I’ve been a happy Fastmail user for years, but in a recent thread Announcing Hey, it was alleged that fastmail will recycle your email address after you stop paying them, and that it’s a common attack to try to register old fastmail addresses and try to use them to access services. This contrasts with Hey which will forward your old hey.com address to another address after you stop paying, and not make it available t…

It's probably worth using your own domain even when using third party email providers, so you are in control of your email address.

That's a good point. I don't suppose there a way of leaving Gmail and bringing your @gmail.com address with you, is there. That was one of the changes that was forced on phone companies years ago to make it easier to move provider.
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