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Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by npteljes »

illiarian wrote: post #41
detrites wrote: post #28

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's Tor Browser, but for clearnet

Yes, and I like it that they explicitly say so on the page. This kind of transparency and down to earth marketing inspires confidence.

Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by heartbreak »

wkat4242 wrote: post #94
detrites wrote: post #60

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Well, some of us don't want to be tracked, don't want to be tracked and don't want to be tracked. Given your stated preferences, are you actually looking for a privacy-focused browser?

It should be possible to make exceptions for sites you trust IMO.

It is. You open those sites in Firefox.

Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by illiarian »

npteljes wrote: post #121
illiarian wrote: post #41

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So it's Tor Browser, but for clearnet

Yes, and I like it that they explicitly say so on the page. This kind of transparency and down to earth marketing inspires confidence.

Ah, completely missed it on the page. So I'm just re-iterating :)

Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by andai »

Curious how usable it is for anything with CloudFlare. CloudFlare doesn't like browsers that block fingerprinting, and it doesn't like Tor Browser in my experience, and when I use Mullvad I also get way more CloudFlare Captchas, often getting stuck in an infinite loop. I'm focusing on CloudFlare because it seems half the sites I use are behind their firewall now. (e.g. I have to switch from Brave to Firefox every time I want to use ChatGPT...)

Re: The Mullvad Browser

#125

Post by tomcam »

dymk wrote: post #100
yucky wrote: post #96

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> Eich being a homophobe

Wut? Citation needed. I’m sure you don’t mean his support of Proposition 8 in 2008, because Barack Obama professed the same belief in 2008… making him, in this formulation, a homophobe.

Re: The Mullvad Browser

#126

Post by medstrom »

alkonaut wrote: post #89
dathinab wrote: post #80

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> run at a specific viewport resolution regardless of your device. It's more like pretending to the website that your screen has a "common" resolution etc. which is nearly but not quite the same as what you said. In the past they semi required you to keep your tor window in a specific window size for this, which just didn't work well in practice. By now they better integrated that in the browser from what I heard, so…

Not sure how it's designed but if I was designing a system of reducing detectable entropy from viewport size, I'd make a fixed list of available resolutions. First all the common resolutions (1920x1080, 2550x14540 and so on), and in addition to that maybe just "snapped" grid sizes in 64p pixel increments. If you use a window size that doesn't match, it should just render the viewport to the closest smaller allowed si…

Yes, that's how it works, if you're talking about the setting privacy.resistFingerprinting.letterboxing. To my memory, the list is any multiple of 200 on width and any multiple of 100 on height. So at this moment my viewport is, I believe, exactly 1200x900.

Bear in mind that it's a minority of people that hit F11 to browse fullscreen, they still have toolbars, so it's not as common as you'd think for the viewport to match a common screen resolution like 1920x1080.

Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by jraph »

tomcam wrote: post #125
dymk wrote: post #100

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> Eich being a homophobe Wut? Citation needed. I’m sure you don’t mean his support of Proposition 8 in 2008, because Barack Obama professed the same belief in 2008… making him, in this formulation, a homophobe.

I don't think we need an umpteenth discussion about this here, it has already been discussed to hell. This is getting old. Just search Brendan Each on HN [1], this discussion happens any time he is mentioned here.

Or just read the summary on Wikipedia [2].

There's a lot of material on this topic, it's easy to make up one's opinion on this if you are genuinely interested.

edit: please people, don't feed this.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Appointment_to_CE...

Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by [deleted] »

tomcam wrote: post #125
dymk wrote: post #100

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> Eich being a homophobe Wut? Citation needed. I’m sure you don’t mean his support of Proposition 8 in 2008, because Barack Obama professed the same belief in 2008… making him, in this formulation, a homophobe.

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Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by INeedMoreRam »

sph wrote: post #103
yucky wrote: post #96

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Eich is divisive, sure, but Brave is not a secure browser any more than Firefox is, with a lot of phoning home and crypto widget, that like them or not, are out of place in a browser you want to trust. Ideally my browser and all the software I use do not connect and fetch data unless I tell them to. A browser should not be "bundled" with extra widgets for convenience.

You can completely disable the crypto wallet.

Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by INeedMoreRam »

jraph wrote: post #109
yucky wrote: post #96

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I don't care about Brendan Eich quite as much as I care about the Google / Chrome monopoly, and Brave just makes this monopoly stronger by depending on Chrome. By being Chrome, actually. I want the web to be built around something else than ad-/tracking-supported software and Brave is being very self-contradictory with this. Don't use Brave if you care about the global picture / tracking around the globe.

Which browser do you recommend?
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