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Re: Latest Mozilla VPN features

#91

Post by chelmzy »

kfreds wrote: post #57
maeln wrote: post #21

I feel like most of those VPN services are using very borderline marketing and like to keep a lot of information blurry. As far as I know, in a lot of country (like France) it is a legal obligation to keep logs and be able to identify one of your customer if the police demands it. Therefore, if you have server in France or any country with similar rules, you can't operate a "0 log" service. And since those kinds of s…

> As far as I know, in a lot of country (like France) it is a legal obligation to keep logs and be able to identify one of your customer if the police demands it. Not for all types of services. ISPs are sometimes under obligation to log, but VPN services don't belong in that category. I can't speak for others but we have contacts with legal experts (in a few jurisdictions) that alert us to changing laws. Ultimately i…

Are you an employee at Mullvad? Just want to say thank you for the excellent product and does Mullvad plan to except Monero in the future?

Re: Latest Mozilla VPN features

#92

Post by lucideer »

baseballdork wrote: post #80
acatton wrote: post #74

I genuinely don't understand what is the incentive for using Mozilla VPN? I'm a Mozilla and Firefox fanboy, but this new product had me sceptical since the beginning. They literally bring nothing to the table except their brand name. They don't even do the server side, but just resell Mullvad's infrastructure with their brand. I'm already a Mullvad customer, and if I were to switch to Mozilla VPN: * It would not be a…

I was also a mullvad customer and wanted to switch to Mozilla VPN specifically because it seems to be one of the only ways to support the browser. At the time they didn't support linux at all, but someone wrote a tool[0] to squirt out the necessary configs to use with wg-quick. When I saw that, I pulled the trigger and haven't looked back. [0] https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire

> it seems to be one of the only ways to support the browser

Is this the case? Is income from Mozilla VPN put toward Firefox development?

If it is, that info should be front-and-centre; they'd have a lot more customers I think.

Re: Latest Mozilla VPN features

#93

Post by StavrosK »

cyberlab wrote: post #38
sodality2 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about avoiding copyright letters?

If someone is determined enough, they just subpoena the VPN and ask for logs. Since a VPN is a single-hop proxy, your real IP is trivially exposed. Even if the VPN provider claims they don't keep logs. There's no way of proving they don't keep logs, and you need to hope the server you connect to is not compromised in some way. And VPN providers are known to use cheap colocation servers/Virtual Private Servers which h…

> If someone is determined enough

This sweeps the entire benefit under the rug. If someone isn't determined enough, a VPN solves your problem.

Re: Latest Mozilla VPN features

#95

Post by pmurt7 »

I switched to Brave, I feel it's the new Firefox really (both Brave and Firefox were founded by Brendan Eich). IPFS, Tor, built-in ad blocker in Rust, crypto, that's what I want in my browser. VPN is so 2010.

Re: Latest Mozilla VPN features

#97

Post by EveYoung »

admax88q wrote: post #63

The rise of VPNs signals to me that we as an industry have given up on end to end encryption. Instead VPNs try to encrypt the "first hop" with the assumption or hope that the networks further down the line are "secure" Being on an "unsecured" local network shouldnt be an issue for security.

How has the industry given up on encryption? In recent years, HTTPS became the new standard and most apps are forced to use encrypted connections as well. Just because VPN ads are calling local networks "unsecure" doesn't mean that they are a true risk.

Re: Latest Mozilla VPN features

#98

Post by [deleted] »

IgorPartola wrote: post #83
acatton wrote: post #74

I genuinely don't understand what is the incentive for using Mozilla VPN? I'm a Mozilla and Firefox fanboy, but this new product had me sceptical since the beginning. They literally bring nothing to the table except their brand name. They don't even do the server side, but just resell Mullvad's infrastructure with their brand. I'm already a Mullvad customer, and if I were to switch to Mozilla VPN: * It would not be a…

I signed up for Mozilla VPN instead of Mullvad for a two reasons: 1. It was priced in USD. 2. The price is a flat monthly $5. They don't offer discounts for longer contracts.

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Re: Latest Mozilla VPN features

#100

Post by kfreds »

chelmzy wrote: post #91
kfreds wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As far as I know, in a lot of country (like France) it is a legal obligation to keep logs and be able to identify one of your customer if the police demands it. Not for all types of services. ISPs are sometimes under obligation to log, but VPN services don't belong in that category. I can't speak for others but we have contacts with legal experts (in a few jurisdictions) that alert us to changing laws. Ultimately i…

Are you an employee at Mullvad? Just want to say thank you for the excellent product and does Mullvad plan to except Monero in the future?

Hi! Thank you. I’m pretty sure it’s on the roadmap.
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