Checking with https://www.amiunique.org/ resulted in a unique fingerprint for me. The "Canvas" and "Media devices" attributes are unique on their own. I had not expected this.
The Mullvad Browser
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Re: The Mullvad Browser
#142I use a custom Firefox config that tweaks and disables lots of features, based on this template: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js .
Fun fact: this makes you extremely easy to identify, because it gives your browser a very unique fingerprint. If JS is enabled, that is, which you can disable by default, but JS is simply a requirement for many websites to function.
I wonder how they approached this problem this for the Mullvad Browser.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
I quite like Mullvad. I haven't needed to use them much (mostly when my ISP has wonky routing and I need something semi-urgent), but their service is pretty good, their website feels like it's designed for the more "techy users". Their billing is the least sketchiest of VPN providers, with no ticking clocks, no upsell and other nonsense. I also like they provide a Wireguard file and a way to filter it, so it's super…
I share a VPN subscription with my father, I use it for torrenting so my ISP can't snoop on me, and he uses it to bypass geo blocking to watch UK shows (things like BritBox, Netflix, BBC etc.) in another country. Unfortunately, there is no way to legally pay for most of these services and watch them from abroad. I tried to get us to use Mullvad, as it was perfect for me, but for him it was constant problems with the…
Problems with services are to be expected when using Mullvad. Their IPs are all recognised as originating from datacenters. You might be lucky, but often not.
Sketchier VPN providers use "home ips" and rotate them regularly in order to defeat Netflix or other services blocking them.
Re: The Mullvad Browser
#144Why should I put any faith in this VPN company if I don't even trust my own ISP?
Re: The Mullvad Browser
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Some people just want everything, no compromises.
That's not very charitable.
Some people just want to pick a different point on the tradeoff between convenience and privacy.
Imagine User A uses Fastmail every day, logging in manually every morning. User B uses Fastmail every day, with a saved login cookie. How is User B's privacy any worse? What would User B gain from not having that choice?
Re: The Mullvad Browser
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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] http…
As a bi man, the next paragraphs excuse nothing.
But if these details are to play a factor in browser selection, one should reflect on the myriad of undesirable associations involved in going about daily life.
Just typing this reply involves an entire supply chain associated with individuals and organizations of questionable character.
To apply this same level of sensitivity to daily life would be to mostly unhook oneself from modern society.
I care deeply about the safety and freedom of the LGBTQ+ community, and find little value in allowing someone else’s lack of acceptance of me dictate my life. Doing so is a form of “doing something” that does nothing but widen the gap to actual change, which can only ever happen via open dialogue.
I think there are plenty of reasons not to choose Brave based on the actual technical merits of the product.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
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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.
Brave had the least home-phoning in the study https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/study...
Re: The Mullvad Browser
#149I 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 use Mullvad for 2 years and yeah it's been a good VPN. Global outage have been very rare, maybe it happened 2 or 3 times altogether. It happens however that some websites are blocking Mullvad servers, usually, it's just about switching to another server to get this working.
The desktop client also supports some obfuscation schemes (UDP over TCP) which is useful when you're in countries which block any kind of VPN. The default smartphone app doesn't support this out of the box, but they have some tutorials to setup Shadowsocks and OpenVPN to route the traffic over https as well
Re: The Mullvad Browser
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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] http…
That has nothing to do with my comment. You libeled someone without providing any proof at all.