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Does the tor browser fork stay up to date quickly? I would be quite worried about stale browsers in this day and age, to an extent at least
I believe Tor is collaborating with Mozilla very closely, to the point that Mozilla includes patches from Tor Browser now: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Tor_Uplift
"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?
But it needs tech skill to adopt, so even if this Mullvad Browser is basically just prepackaged Arkenfox, that's great to drive adoption.
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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.
yeah, also they get my bank card info, I become easily trackable if need arises
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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.
Choose the right tool for the job.
I wonder how many VPN providers are going to turn out to be honeypots in the long run. Every time they make it easier, I get more suspicious about the privacy really being provided. Perhaps I’m just really distrustful and cynical.
Mullvad has been around for quite a long time, and regularly releases third-party security audits. Is there anything they've done that comes off as a red flag to you? > Perhaps I’m just really distrustful and cynical. That's fine, but you should have a good reason for it
If you were to looking for some trust in a VPN, you would want them to offer locations in privacy friendly countries, and highlighting them as such. That would potentially funnel more used to those servers which would be beneficial. You would also want the VPN to ensure the servers in those countries are run by companies based in that country, and not be head-quartered in some other country.
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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…
Perhaps it would be better to letterbox randomly with say 20px width and 20px height, so it's just 1 chance in 400 to even return to the same reported screen size? That way you'd be even harder to track than if you are the only person running exactly 1000x800.
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…
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https://www.computerworld.com/article/3292619/the-brave-brow...
> Brave scrubs sites of ads and ad tracking, then replaces those ads with its own advertisements, which are not individually targeted but instead aimed at an anonymous aggregate of the browser's user base.
Sounds an awful lot like Google's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_Learning_of_Cohorts, no?
btw I don't know anything about Brandon Eich, but I still would never use a crypto browser
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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?
Other (independent) initiatives like NetSurf [1] and Ladybird [2] are on my radar. NetSurf has been around for a while; Ladybird seems impressive, achieving some great progress and result with little resources. I should actually try Ladybird more seriously when I get the chance, and maybe contribute if I find the time :-)
[0] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
[1] https://www.netsurf-browser.org/
[2] https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform...
"The account number is the only thing you need to connect to Mullvad VPN. We ask for no email, no phone number, no personal information whatsoever." yeah, also they get my bank card info, I become easily trackable if need arises