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Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by jwestbury »

noahmasur wrote: post #111
_puk wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But isn't this what Firefox containers achieve? My understanding is that cookies etc aren't shared between containers, so I can stay logged in, and not be tracked across websites. If it's achievable, why compromise?

Your browser can still be fingerprinted without cookies. The site just needs enough unique information (user agent, timezone, screen size, IP, operating system, country, etc.) to form a trackable identity.

> IP

This is a surprisingly effective one when combined with other users of your network. A couple of years ago, I started getting Facebook ads for things I'd never looked at, but that I knew my wife had looked at. We don't share any devices, and she doesn't even have a Facebook account.

It's pretty troubling how invasive shadow profiles are.

Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by deltree7 »

detrites wrote: post #60
ta1243 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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?

Most of us are self-aware that I'm not that important to be specifically targeted.

At the end of the day, where there is attention, there will be ads. All you are fighting for should they show you relevant ads or irrelevant ads.

People who live a privileged life and have nothing else important going on in their life choose this hill to die on.

Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by bmacho »

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…

Why not just disable javascript?

Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by asenna »

triihart wrote: post #134

"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

They launched the Mullvad cards being sold on Amazon[1], you can ask a friend in a different country to buy one for you.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mullvad-VPN-Windows-Android-SCRATCH/d...

Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by stainablesteel »

triihart wrote: post #134

"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

they don't save this information, they used to then ended up removing the process to do so 1-2 years ago

Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by warner25 »

udev4096 wrote: post #48
zamnos wrote: post #13

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…

I think the reason that they have made it free is to combat fingerprinting more efficiently. It would be easy to fingerprint if they have a very limited amount of users

That makes sense except for the fact that servers can still identify the smaller set of actual Mullvad VPN users by their IP address(es).

Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by chaxor »

INeedMoreRam wrote: post #130
jraph wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Probably the one from this post will now be the likely answer.

Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by webmobdev »

Important Note: Tor browser isn't truly private as it connects to Firefox services on start-up, even if you disable all options that require these. (Unlike zero telemetry / "no automated connections" browsers like the Orion browser - https://browser.kagi.com/ - or the PaleMoon browser - http://www.palemoon.org/ that actually do respect your browser settings).

This seems deliberate as no attempts have been made to fix this despite repeated highlighting of this issue online by many concerned users.

(I haven't verified if the Mullvad browser has the same problem).

Re: The Mullvad Browser

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Post by darksaints »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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.

Barack Obama opposed prop 8 in 2008, and certainly never donated money to the campaign like Eich did. There are dozens of articles about it.

But he also opposed gay marriage, so to some extent he was homophobic, at least for political reasons. He later changed his mind on it, likely also for political reasons.

But shame on you for using such disingenuous bullshit tactics to make your homophobic point: “If you call Eich a homophobe, then you also have to call a homophobe!”. For one, it ignores the fact that people’s minds can change over time, whereas Eich has never changed his stance on gay marriage and has never disavowed the money he spent trying to stop it. And two, it’s just a red herring argument and attempted hypocrisy trap.

And worse, it’s a fucking terrible hypocrisy trap. There are millions of people who support gay marriage but never supported Barack Obama, and millions more who supported Obama precisely because they didn’t want gay marriage and thought they could trust him to not change his mind on it. Obama may be beloved by some liberals, but he is a hypocrite to many on a multitude of reasons, ranging from his gay marriage flip flop, to his support of the patriot act, to the promotion of indefinite detention and torture to federal law, to the fact that he continued the pointless Iraq war for his entire term.

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