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From the FAQ [0]: > Why is the time is wrong? > The timezone is spoofed, to combat fingerprinting. > What's this weird spacing around the websites? > It’s called letterboxing, a function to combat fingerprinting (using your browser window size to identify you together with other measures). > How do I stay logged into specific websites between sessions? > It’s not possible. It’s an action to combat tracking. Not sure…
So ... it is a fork of Mozilla Firefox with privacy-friendly settings by default, some script blocking, and dns lookups done via Mullvads encrypted dns service Sounds ok to me, I have a longish and probably out of date list of settings that I like to chance in a new instance of firefox. I trust mullvad to not log dns more than I trust my ISP and I live in the UK so unencrypted dns here is being logged and stored by o…
> I have a longish and probably out of date list of settings that I like to chance in a new instance of firefox Not a user but part of the purpose of the TOR fork is settings, anything that is detectable via JS is supposed to remain default to prevent fingerprinting. It's partly why it's not widely popular, I don't know if this is still true but it used to be that it was supposed to be run at a specific viewport reso…
"The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in a collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. It’s designed to minimize tracking and fingerprinting. You could say it’s a Tor Browser to use without the Tor Network." https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser So basically like... hardened Firefox?
Hmm looking the settings I saw a search engine I didn't recognize... I guess they also have a google proxy? https://leta.mullvad.net So I guess now you can go full Mullvad.
Did you make your own search engine from scratch?
We did not, we made a front end to the Google Search API.
Our search engine performs the searches on behalf of our users. This means that rather than using Google Search directly, our Leta server makes the requests.
Searching by proxy in other words.
From the FAQ [0]: > Why is the time is wrong? > The timezone is spoofed, to combat fingerprinting. > What's this weird spacing around the websites? > It’s called letterboxing, a function to combat fingerprinting (using your browser window size to identify you together with other measures). > How do I stay logged into specific websites between sessions? > It’s not possible. It’s an action to combat tracking. Not sure…
Except most of the time I don't want to spoof my timezone, don't want weird spacing around websites, and do want to remain logged in to websites. > How do I stay logged into specific websites between sessions? > It’s not possible. It’s an action to combat tracking. Turns me off immediately
I guess why not. This is an open source, rebranded Firefox and Firefox-like browsers could use some publicity. It promotes privacy and privacy can use some publicity too. Tor too. Mullvad seems to be honest in the fact that their business model is selling VPNs and it's nice they are saying it's not enough. They are not saying that you might not need one though. We need a Firefox with good defaults and it seems like t…
I also like they provide a Wireguard file and a way to filter it, so it's super easy to get started.
Hm that seems like a mistake. If I'm reading the docs right, the Mullvad browser will let you browse the web without using their/any VPN, which mean that it's entirely possible to accidentally surf to a site without having your VPN up, and reveal your IP address to that site. To contrast, there's no way to use the Tor Browser without using the onion network so it's ~impossible to accidentally browse to site and revea…
$ gpg --verify mullvad-browser-linux64-12.0.4_ALL.tar.xz.asc gpg: assuming signed data in 'mullvad-browser-linux64-12.0.4_ALL.tar.xz' gpg: Signature made Fri 31 Mar 2023 01:15:54 AM CST gpg: using RSA key E53D989A9E2D47BF gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
Isn't Firefox already reselling mulvad for their VPN?